Workers across the country resumed at their duty post on Tuesday after the public holiday declared for the Christmas and New Year celebrations.
The federal government had through the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, declared Monday January 3, 2022 as public holiday to mark the New Year Day which fell on Saturday.
In Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, only a few workers and visitors were seeing at the State Secretariat complex carrying out their activities when our correspondent visited the place.
Some of the workers who spoke said there will be no serious activity until next week, as most of their colleagues were yet to return from their vacations.
A worker in the state Ministry of Health, said the situation is usually the same after every public holiday, adding that most people find it difficult to resume because of the work stress they envisage.
“Its really not easy to resume immediately, me I had to come today because of a very pressing issue that needed my attention. I am hopeful that latest by next week this whole place will be a beehive of activities as it used to be”, he said.
Another female worker at the Due Process Bureau, noted that the only reason she came back to work was to come and “hustle” because she was broke.
She said: “I had to come today to see what I can get because I spent all my salary during Christmas and now I am so broke. I thought about it that staying at home will not bring money otherwise I would have stayed back. Who doesn’t like rest”?
