Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced a pay rise for civil servants in the State.
Sanwo-Olu announced this during his working visit to the Secretariat in Alausa.
The Governor also announced the approval of personalised vehicles for directors in the ministries with the first 100 to be disbursed by month end.
He said: ‘’ I have looked around and I know that as a country, there is pressure. I know that, as a country, there is a high level of inflation.
‘’At our cabinet meeting, I instructed the Head of Service office and the Ministry of staff, training, and pensions to start work on how we are going to increase the entire salary of our public servants.
“We will review salaries to show we can take care of our public servants. We won’t wait for the Federal Government because we are a proactive government…”
The governor expressed his appreciation to the workers for supporting his administration, saying he had been part and parcel of them, even as urged them to do more to “serve all Lagosians.”
“I am one of you and part of you. The support I have received from you has been unprecedented. I appreciate the support you have given my government. The future is bright and there is nothing too much for us to do as a government,” the governor said.
The Head of Service(HoS), Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola, in his welcome address, thanked the governor for fulfilling some of the promises he made to the workers when he first visited them in 2019.
He said 80 per cent of the promises the governor made had been fulfilled and thanked the governor on behalf of the 99,000 workforces.
Reeling out some of the achievements of the governor, Muri-Okunola, said 35 new staff buses were given to the workers, prompt payment of staff salaries affected as well as international training for them, among others.
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