ABUJA (Federal Civil Service Commission Report) – The Federal Civil Service Commission has revealed that in the month of April, 2014 the office has engaged in staged several official activities, including a one-day workshop to sensitise staff of the commission on quality service delivery.
The monthly review of activities published by the Press and Public Relations Department of the Commission has reported that the objective of the one – day workshop which took place on the 10th of April, 2014 was for the sensitisation of staff on GL.13 and below by the SERVICOM organization. It added that workshop tagged: “Sensitization of the Federal Civil Service Commission staff” was declared open by the Acting Permanent Secretary, Mustapha Suleiman, who charged the staff to be good ambassadors of the organization.
The report also identified other activities carried out by the Federal Civil Service commission in the month of April to include: recruitment interview for State Councils from GL 8-10 to fill the one hundred and forty (140) vacancies declared by the Federal Ministry of Justice. Also mentioned was the interface with Union Executives, particularly the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) on April 7, 2014 to deliberate on the conduct of promotion examination exercises and illegal recruitment into the service.
According to the report, the Union led by its Secretary – General, Lawal Alade Bashir expressed dissatisfaction with the recently concluded promotion examinations for the Directorate cadre which lasted until midnight and appealed that subsequent promotion exercises should be concluded during the day.
In his response, the Chairman of the Commission, Joan Ayo assured the Association that examinations would henceforth be conducted in good time. She added that funds are being negotiated for the commission’s plan to introduce digital examination for officers at the lower cadre, in order to meet up with global practices.
Speaking on the issue of illegal recruitment into the service, the Secretary General of the Union described as worrisome, the union’s discovery of 11 cases of recruitment without due process. He cited the case of Nwapa Peter, who joined the Ebonyi State Civil Service in 1988 and was employed as a Director on GL 17 in the Public Complaints Commission when his mates in the Federal Civil Service were still on GL 15 as an instance.
Joan Ayo, while adducing reasons for the occurrence said that there are cases of some states that are disadvantaged at the Directorate level as a result of which the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has written to President Jonathan for a special waiver to employ such caliber of people to fill the vacancies as Directors. She assured them that such officers would not take the positions of other people and would not be subjected to Directorate Examinations as they were needed to fill the positions of Permanent Secretaries for their states.
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