… Evil is gaining ground in the name of the four-day working week, and everybody is keeping quiet – Joseph Hayab … Islamaisation going to the next le
… Evil is gaining ground in the name of the four-day working week, and everybody is keeping quiet – Joseph Hayab
… Islamaisation going to the next level – Emmanuel Kure
… This government is encouraging laziness! – P.F.N. Kaduna
… el-Rufai is doing a test-run to see how the country will react – Supo Ayokunle C.A.N National President
… A political project to garner religious sentiment to boost political agenda
– Prof Femi Ehinmedu, former P.F.N. Chairman, Kaduna State.
Christian leaders across Nigeria have said that the recent four-day working week policy, put in place in Kaduna State by the governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai is Islamisation going to the next level.
In their responses, the leaders said it is not only lazy and retrogressive, but an Islamic response to the Sunday work-free day culture handed over to most nations of the world through colonial inheritances.
They said the policy is coming at the wrong time when productivity is low and earnings are poor. The state workforce should be encouraged to work more to lift the state and Nigeria out of the current economic impasse rather than being encouraged to be lazy!
The governor, the leaders said, should focus on creative ideas to unite and encourage Nigerians across religious and economic lines.
Giving quality time to frivolous policies, tottering the orbits of frivolous religious sentiments being justified with laughable excuses will do no one any good.
FOUR-DAY WORKING WEEK
In late 2021, governor el-Rufai had announced that the state would commence a transition to a four-day working week from December 1, which in the interim, will permit public servants to work from home on Fridays. Eventually, the new measure will also affect the organised private sector in the state.
El-Rufai’s spokesman, Muyiwa Adekeye, explained that the decision was designed to help boost productivity, improve work-life balance, and enable workers to have more time for their families, rest, and agriculture.
Also adjusted is the working hours for public servants, which would not be 8 a.m-5 p.m, Monday to Friday. The state government expects the required legal and regulatory framework to be in place by January 2022.
* Rev John Hayab
Evil is gaining ground, and everybody is quiet – Joseph Hayab, C.A.N Kaduna
Responding to this policy, the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Kaduna State, Rev John Joseph Hayab, said that gradually, evil is gaining ground, and everybody is keeping quiet.
Apart from the religious implication of the policy, the economic consequence is terrible.
‘A state with a low economy, low productivity and very high number of poor people, Hayab said, is removing a day from the working day when well over eighty per cent of our citizens rely on daily work to earn a living.
A country that has not been able to pay an adequate salary, even with five working days, is now reducing the workdays! It only shows there is a lack of seriousness in governance.
‘Apart from this, Hayab added, the state government is now playing a religious card with this four-day working week so that people will start fighting. I see a bigger danger coming.
When and how, I may not say exactly, but I must confess that it will not be too long. Are we running a different constitution from the one already running in Kaduna state?’
Islamisation going to the next level – Emmanuel Kure
* Apostle Emmanuel Kure
The vision pioneer of Throneroom Trust Ministry, Apostle Emmanuel Kure, has said that the Four-day working week policy is an attempt to take Islamisation of Nigeria to the next level.
‘It does not make sense, Kure told E-life. ‘Other states are working five days, six days, and you are reducing yours to four days.
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The economic implications would be negative. A little time now, they would be complaining of poverty. These people don’t like to work.
‘The bulk of the indigenous educated workforce in this state is Southern Kaduna people. Even in his state government, most of the crew and assistants are Southerners. It is not that he loves them, but these are the good hands he could get.
‘This is why Southern Kaduna is asking for their state. If we like, we are prepared to work for six days. We just hope the Federal government will call them to order before it becomes a law in the state.
Kure added that el-Rufai is doing this because an election is near, and he wants to be in the people’s good books of his people so that all his sins would be forgiven by the people they deceive to vote for them.
This government is encouraging laziness!- P.F.N. Kaduna speaks
* Apostle Emmanuel Egoh Bako
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Kaduna state, through its Chairman, Apostle Emmanuel Egoh Bako, has also spoken on the four-day working week policy.
Speaking to E-life, the Chairman said Christian leaders in Kaduna thought that the governor would call all stakeholders to a meeting before such a decision is taken and announced to make their stands clear.
But that is not the case. It shows the kind of person we are dealing with.’
On the policy implication, Bako said it would be difficult for the mission and private schools in Kaduna state to cooperate with the procedure.
‘Our mission schools are after standard. We even wish we could have six days working week because we want excellence and our children well educated.
By this, they can compete favourably with their colleagues, not only in other states but the international world. But this government is encouraging laziness!
It is religious bigotry – Supo Ayokunle, National President C.A.N
* Dr Supo Ayokunle
The national President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, His Eminence Dr Supo Ayokunle, has said that a reasonable person knows that we have wasted a lot of time on COVID and need to recover. Why reduce the time of work when we need to recover? Is that encouraging hard work or laziness?
‘The four-day working week, Ayokunle said, is pure religious bigotry. It is a shame that a state like Kaduna that is heavily troubled by insurgency and banditry is now under another religious madness in the name of reduced workdays.
He added that el-Rufai is doing a test run to see how the country will react. If care is not taken, that is the template coming for the entire nation.
That is one of the reasons we are crying that Muslim-Muslim ticket is not going to be anything good in this nation. Nobody will disagree or say no because they have to defend their jobs and religion.
A political project to garner religious sentiment to boost political agenda
– Prof Femi Ehinmedu, former P.F.N. Chairman, Kaduna State.
* Prof Femi Ehinmedu
The former Chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Kaduna state, Prof Femi Ehinmedu, has described the policy as a political project, intending to garner the attention of religious sentiment to boost political agenda.
Speaking to E-life, Ehinmedu said that it is unfortunate that in a nation like ours, individuals will do just anything that will make people, who are economically and spiritually blind, perceive them as heroes.
‘Right now, Ehinmedu added, the church can only give advisory responses because this policy has not been legislated upon.
It can still be contested in the law court. The relevant Church bodies concerned should stand up and make objections.
El-Rufai prefers to lose Friday earnings because of religion
– Apostle Abayomi Adekoya, deputy chairman P.F.N Kaduna.
Apostle Abayomi Adekoya, deputy chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria Kaduna, believes that the policy is strictly religious than the economic lies reeled out by el-Rufai.
* Apostle Abayomi Adekoya
Friday is always a half-day in the north because people go to the mosques and never return to the office.
In a state as poor as Kaduna, the governor prefers to lose the little earned on Fridays because of religion! It is sad.
The governor, Adekoya said, is merely testing the waters, seeking a situation where Nigeria will become like the Islamic countries in the Middle East, where Friday is a work-free day, and people go to work on Sundays.
‘If care is not taken, the clergy added, they would soon start telling us to go to the office on Sundays.
COMMENTS
In fact, the governor has really killed the standard of quality education in Kaduna state. Equally showing favouritism nepotism, Religious sentimentalism in Kaduna. Furthermore has refused to pay workers whom he has sent.