Federal government plans to downsize federal civil servants

It has been predicted that some federal civil servants may lose their jobs prior to the recent announcement by the federal government on a plan to downsize the civil service.

According to a statement by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, explained that the downsizing is aimed at cutting the cost of the government’s recurrent expenditure yearly.

Ahmed disclosed that the Federal Government is working on an exit package for workers that would be affected.

“There is a special committee led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) that is working on the review of agencies with the view to collapsing them partly using the Oransanye report.

“At the end of it what we want to do is to reduce the size of government and also to reduce the size of personnel cost and part of it will be designing the exit packages that are realistic,” she said.