Bauchi State government has reduced official working days from five to three for workers from level 1- level 12 to enable them to go to work on their farms as a strategy to boost food production.
The decision to reduce the working days to three was reached at the end of the state executive council meeting presided over by Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed yesterday.
According to him, others such as healthcare providers are exempted considering the critical nature of their services to the people.
He said that all the MDAs are to determine the categories of their workers who are qualified to be part of those to benefit from the new working system.
He stressed that the development was part of the determination of Governor Mohammed to ensure that farming, which is the mainstay of the state, was harnessed fully even among civil servants.
The Head of Service, Alh Yahuza Adamu, said there is a caveat to the approval and its implementation that his office “will soon circulate the guidelines of the system to make it operationally successful.”
Alh. Adamu warned that the implementation will be closely monitored to ensure that it is not abused thereby losing its objectives.
He said that the Governor presented another memo on the retaining of over 2000 youths engaged as security guards by the Spiderwebs security agency, saying that they had fully settled their outstanding N73 million backlog allowances even before the coming of the administration up to April this year.
He said the effort is to ensure that the youths are fully engaged to avoid indolence and check criminalities across the state.
He announced that the council approved the moving of the Spiderwebs from BACYWARD to the Ministry of Internal Security for administrative convenience.
