Daily Trust gathered that the affected workers were offered temporary appointment early this year to work with the agency.
A copy of the termination letter signed by the director administration and finance of KASTELEA, Hauwa Y. Othman and made available to our reporter reads: “You will recall the temporary appointment offered you vide letter dated 27th February, 2015 and to draw your attention to the fact the government no longer need you service. In view of the foregoing therefore, I am directed to inform you that your appointment is hereby terminated with immediate effect.”
One of the affected workers, Bulus Musa Kura said the sack came as a shock to most of them as they were just settling down for the work.
“We came this morning (yesterday) and to our greatest surprise, the management of KASTELEA terminated our appointment; saying they no longer requires our services. Though, it was indicated on our appointment letters that it is a temporary appointment but every process that leads to our engagement has been followed and KASTALEA has been enacted by law in 2014. The lawmakers sat over it and at the end, the agency was established; as such, each one of us was given an appointment letter early this year,” he said.
“We have so far received four months’ salary, March to June this year and we were even screened in the ongoing verification exercise for civil servants. We have been on training for the past two months in the VIO training school, but last week Thursday, we were asked to stop the training and the next thing was termination of our appointments,” Kura said.
When contacted, Ms Othman declined to comment on the issue.
