Dozens of federal civil servants say they were illegally pushed out of the Federal Ministries of Environment and Works, and they want President Bola Tinubu and National Assembly leadership to step in. The affected workers have now formally appealed to both Tinubu and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, hoping that top-level intervention will finally move their case forward.
The dismissals, which the workers describe as unlawful, have dragged on long enough to earn the word "prolonged" in their own appeal. That language signals that this is not a fresh grievance. These are people who have been fighting for their livelihoods for some time, watching bureaucratic doors stay shut while their families feel the strain.
By going directly to the president and the Senate president, the civil servants are bypassing the ministries that let them go and betting on political will at the highest level. Whether Tinubu or Akpabio will treat the appeal as urgent business is the question these workers are now waiting to have answered.
Originally published by AllAfrica.