The Federal Government is considering a
bouquet of new measures to check the increasing rate of illegal
recruitment among the ministries, departments and agencies of
government.
The measures to be rolled out soon, it
was learnt, would put to an end the practice by the agencies of
government of conducting recruitment without recourse to the laid down
procedures.
Many government parastatals including
the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, the Federal Inland Revenue Service, and the Nigerian
Prisons Service, among others have been rocked by recruitment scandals.
SUNDAY PUNCH reported
exclusively last week that following a review carried out by the
Ministry of Finance, 183 out of 185 MDAs had recruited 13,780 workers in
recent years.
Out of the number, 6,917 workers were
recruited without any formal approval; 2,314 were employed by seven
universities with governing council approval; while only 4,549 had
correctly obtained approval from the Office of the Head of Service and
Federal Character Commission.
The review showed that out of the 185
agencies, only the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Army sought
approval for their recruitment.
But speaking on the development, the
Finance of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said that the MDAs were not
allowed to conduct any form of fresh recruitment without obtaining a
prior written approval from the Budget Office of the Federation.
She said that the rate at which
government agencies conducted such recruitment was worrisome, adding
that it was responsible for the many cases of ghost workers in the
public sector.
She said, “What we’ve found out is that many agencies have gone ahead to recruit illegally.”
“We are going to be very strict on
agencies as this is where the ghost workers are created because those
employed do not have any job specification. This government is very
determined to stamp that out. There would be some measures to be rolled
out to address that.”
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