Workers resume in Enugu after Sallah holiday

Amidst low turnout of workers, work resumed in Enugu on Wednesday after the Sallah celebration, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The NAN correspondent who monitored the resumption at Enugu State High Court, Federal and State secretariats at Enugu, the state capital reports that few workers were at their duty posts.
Some cleaners and gardeners were also seen keeping the offices and their environs clean and tidy.
Some of the workers who spoke to NAN said some workers were yet to return from the holidays adding that normal activities were expected to resume next week Tuesday.
They said many thought the holiday extended to Wednesday.
A staff at the Federal Secretariat who pleaded anonymity said that many workers travelled and were yet to return while only few of them reported for duty.
She described the public holiday as good saying: “I am happy to have resumed work today because I did not travelled but many others travelled home but are yet to return.
“The secretariat is scanty because many thought the holiday will extend to Wednesday. I am sure that work will resume fully by Tuesday next week,” she said.
A clerk at the court who pleaded anonymity said the celebration did not affect their resumption as many of them were at work.
According to her, many courts did not sit because the judges were not on seat.
“As you can see, few courts are sitting and lawyers have been coming to pick dates for their cases and hopefully activities will return to normal by next week,” she said.
Meanwhile, some business owners around the secretariat premises decried low patronage due to low turnout of workers.
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A photocopy operator, Ngozi Mbah, said the low turnout of workers affected her business as she was yet to make up to N500 unlike other days.
“I am not happy about it coupled with the fact that key ministries have relocated from the secretariat to their permanent buildings.
“We are just managing here but today’s business is the worst,” she said.