Controversy trails Taraba govt’s decision to slash weepers’ stipend

The Danji SS Media Team has criticised the Taraba authorities government’s determination to trim the monthly stipend paid to thoroughfare sweepers nether the “Operation Keep Taraba Clean” programme from N15,000 to N10,000.
In a connection issued connected Tuesday, the squad described the determination arsenic insensitive, peculiarly amid prevailing economical challenges affecting residents crossed the state.

The radical besides faulted remarks attributed to the Director General of the Taraba State Environmental and Sanitation Agency, Illiya Kefas, who reportedly told workers dissatisfied with the simplification that they were “free to go.”

According to the statement, galore of the affected sweepers are widows and unemployed young women who beryllium connected the stipend for their livelihoods.

The media squad expressed disappointment with the policy, arguing that the authorities authorities should person considered improving workers’ payment alternatively than reducing their earnings. It cited neighbouring Plateau authorities arsenic an example, noting that politician Caleb Mutfwang reportedly accrued thoroughfare sweepers’ wage from N8,000 to N30,000 successful October 2025.

The connection questioned the government’s mentation that the simplification was indispensable to accommodate recently recruited civilian servants, alleging that the authorities had received important national allocations and loans since the removal of substance subsidy.

The radical further alleged...