No fewer than three senators elect have promised Nigerian workers a new deal under the 8th National Assembly and also urged them to be more productive.

Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State, who will be representing Sokoto Central district in the Senate promised to ensure that the 8th National Assembly will enact quality laws to enhance good governance and living standard of Nigerians.

Governor Aliyu Wammako of Sokoto state

” We will make sure that laws are made to enhance good governance and the living standard of the generality of Nigerians. We will take the entire country as our entire constituency and we shall focus on ensuring probity and accountability in all government activities. We will also ensure that issues of welfare of Nigerian workers and all the citizens are effectively addressed”, Wammako said at the Workers Day in the state.

Wamakko also maintained that his outgoing APC-led administration in the state had tried its possible best to meet the yearnings and aspirations of the workers, as well as the entire people of the state.

Earlier, the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr Aminu Umar, had lauded the state government for according top priority to issues of welfare of workers and citizens.

Senators-elect, Uche Ekwunife and Dino Melaye have also called for improved welfare for workers so as to enhance their productivity, noting that a happy workforce would ensure a prosperous nation.

Sen. Uche Ekwunife, Senator-elect to represent Anambra Central (PDP), noted that if the nation could have a productive workforce, then Nigeria could move forward.

“There must be a mechanism to ensure that people do what they are supposed to do; if the civil service is not productive, nothing else will work.

“The way private sector works let us apply the same attitude to civil service so that people in the public office can do better.

Senator-elect Uche Ekwunife: urges workers to do more for Nigeria

“Let us all go and work for Nigeria so that Nigeria can be a better place,“ she said.

While wishing all Nigerian workers a happy celebration, she urged them to be committed to their duties so that their salaries could be justified.

Dino Melaye, Senator-elect to represent Kogi-West (APC), said that the civil service in Nigeria was in dire need of reforms.

Melaye said that the Nigerian worker has not been treated well over time, adding that such anomaly ought to be addressed.

“But the workers themselves are part of the problem because there seems to be a satanic collaboration between the legislature, executive and the labour force.

“Most times, corruption in the civil service is responsible for the dilapidated roads we have, the poor quality and standards of our schools, responsible for our poor health facilities.

“The fight against corruption must be taken seriously first by the labour force and the civil service in this country and we can then begin to move forward,” he said.

He called on workers to be hard working so that Nigeria as a nation would witness real growth in all sectors of the economy.