Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Tuesday
received the final report of the staff screening exercise, with a vow to
retrieve salaries and allowances collected over the years by workers with fake
certificates.
He also said that workers that gained employment into the
state civil service with fake certificates would be prosecuted.
The governor, however, said that workers found guilty of
altering their birth dates would be pardoned.
Bello, who commended the committee that carried out the
exercise, said that issues relating to the 14-months verification exercise had
finally been laid to rest with the submission of the report.
The governor promised to implement the recommendations in
the report, and described the exercise as one of the “surgical operations” his
administration had to embark upon toward effective service delivery.
Earlier, John Ayuba, Chairman of the staff screening and
verification appeal committee, said that the committee was initially expected
to attend to 32,753 workers, but ended up with 39,144
Ayuba, Director of Studies at the Administrative Staff
College of Nigeria (ASCON), said that the committee identified 44 problems that
were common to workers that appeared before it.
He listed the problems to include fake certificates,
irregular promotion and appointments, disregard for civil service rules,
inappropriate qualifications for people already in high places, among others.
The Chairman cited the case of some civil servants with
primary school leaving certificates, who rose to become directors, and
described the situation as strange.
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