The governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, in Lagos State, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has described the public sector pay in the state as disgraceful.
He, therefore, promised that if elected into office as governor in the state, his first priority would be to fix the public sector pay.
He assured that workers would get more pay once he assumes office as governor.
Gbadamosi, who made the promise at the recently held governorship debate, noted that there was a massive gap between what public sector workers are paid and the kind of services they are expected to offer.
“The first thing I am going to be looking at very quickly is public sector pay. What we pay our civil servants and what we demand from them, there is a massive gulf between the two.
Our civil servants are very disgracefully paid, and we want them to deliver the 21st Century service to us in Lagos State. That is not going to happen at the sort of pay levels we are offering them right now. So, we are going to upgrade civil service pay very quickly,” he added.
The ADP candidate also emphasised on the need for constant power supply while explaining that power was critical to everything.
“We will be looking at power because without power, we can do nothing. When God wanted to create the earth, he started with light. He said, ‘Let there be light’ and light was and then everything else came after,” he said.
To fix the problem, he promised that his administration would “put light in a minimum eight local governments within 18 months as part of our Lagos Integrated Regeneration Plan, an emergency plan that we will put together.”
