The Bayelsa State Local Government Service Commission on Monday disagreed with the National Union of Local Government Employees and Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Bayelsa State chapters, on the staff biometrics.
NULGE and MHWUN describe the biometric exercise as a waste, saying the eight local governments in the state had lost over N200m to power the exercise in six months.
President of NULGE, Mr. Akpos Ekiagha, and the state Chairman of MHWUN, Mr. Biu Josiah,said during an emergency meeting that the use of consultant to prepare payrolls for the LGs was not right, stressing that the development had rendered staff of the Account Departments redundant, while the consultant laughed to the bank with over N40m per month.
They, therefore, asked Dickson to terminate the contract of the consultant, alleging that the services of the consultant were fraudulent and a conduit for draining the state’s resources.
They also called on Governor Seriake Dickson to remove the Chairman of LGSC, Mr. Talford Ongolo, over alleged high-handedness and insensitivity to the plight of council workers.
They said, “The clock-in-and-clock-out aspect of the biometric exercise has not yielded the desired result because the claim by Ongolo and the consultant that over N90m was realised was a ruse.”
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