Sanusi calls for the sack of 50% of civil servants in Nigeria

Sanusi had on Tuesday at the Second Annual Capital Market Committee Retreat in Warri, Delta State called on the Federal Government to fire at least 50 per cent of its entire workforce.

Sanusi argued that the country spends 70 per cent of her earnings on salaries and entitlements of civil servants.

He said that having the Federal Government’s staff strength reduced by half would free up capital for infrastructure development in the country and buoy the economy.

“There was no justification in the recommendation,” Omokhuale said.

The CLO chairman said that there was no sense in sacking 50 per cent of civil servants to join an already saturated labour market in Nigeria.

According to him, the focus of governments at all levels should be how to direct excess workforce into other productive use.