. By Ibrahim Muhammad
The over 3000 civil servants allegedly sacked by Zamfara state government have resorted to go spiritual, organized special prayer session for God intervention in the state.
The alleged sacked workers comprises teachers, health workers among others from across the 14 local government areas lamented that they were denied salaries since February 2025 in the state.
According to one of victim, Mohammed Shamsu who spoke on Monday shortly after the special prayer session aim for God intervention,said they would continue with recitation of Quran seeking for Allah’s intervention both individually and collectively in the matter.
“We are human beings like any other person,we have family who solely depend on us,but state government denied us salaries since February this year,this is inhuman”. He lamented.
Also, speaking, another victim who broke in tears, lamented that they have exhorted all avenues From commissioner to head of state civil service for their intervention and restored their means of livelihoods,but have not succeeded.
The victims further disclosed that they have once mate with Governor Dauda lawal for his intervention, where he promised to settle the matter, but up till now he put deep eye on us.
“We also have taken our complaint to commissioner for education and head of service to look into our matter, we don’t know our sin, we have the qualifications and we are professionals in our fields of working for the state government, we need help please”.
The alleged sacked workers who were cut across the fourteen local government areas have maintained that prayer and recitation of Holy Quran would continue, urged Governor Dauda lawal to have human feelings look into their plights.
It could be recalled that on February this year the state government through it’s verification committee said a total of 2,363 ghost workers were uncovered
