NAUNDERO:All Sindh Shah Lateef Local Government Employees Federation, Sindh, has rejected the letter of Secretary, Local Government Department, under which appointments made during 2012-13 have been described as fake and termed it a white lie.
In this connection they held a convention at Town Hall here on Sunday which was participated by their leaders and representatives from the entire province which included Hafiz Mushtaque Ahmed Korejo, Abdul Hadi Markhiyani, Abdul Hafeez Bughio, Yousuf Mirani, Rizwan Abbasi, Bashir Jamali and others.
While addressing the participants their central president Hafiz Mushtaque Korejo said that the notification has been issued to save fake appointees of SCUG for which they have made scapegoat low paid employees which cannot be tolerated. He said the malafide intention of the bureaucracy has been exposed and warned that if the appointments made during 2012-13 are declared fake then they will again launch a massive movement to save families of thousands of poverty-ridden employees of municipalities and union councils of Sindh which cannot be halted by anyone.
Korejo said Local Bodies Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah had made a gentleman’s commitment with us that the employees will be regularized and “we are still hopeful that he will abide by his promise”, he added. He said the PPP government has been constantly claiming that they have never rendered anyone jobless adding that PPP would not like to sack poor employees and lose their thousands of precious votes.
Hafeez Bughio said that these employees have been drawing salaries through banks for about 10 years then how can they be called fake or bogus and those who call them fake are liars and corrupt who are doing all this to hike their massive corruption.
Hadi Markhiyani said that our recent struggle to pay salaries through government treasuries has resulted in terming these employees fake which is intolerable and has exposed the nefarious designs of the rulers. He said salaries’ payment through an online system will eliminate massive corruption which is not being digested by the SCUG employees because their corruption will be eliminated.
It was unanimously decided in the convention that if anyone is retrenched on any pretext then all Local Bodies employees in Sindh will again come out on roads, stop cleanliness and will never believe in lip-service or commitments till regularization of the employees notification is issued and payment of salaries is made through the online system of relevant District Accounts Offices.