AHEAD of the 2015 polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has embarked on a major reorganisation, which will lead to the re-deployment, transfer and retirement of about 67 directors.
Also, the commission's departments are to be cut down from 26 to nine while the directorates would be pegged down to ten.
Most affected among the directors are those with less than two years to retire. They have been offered the option of voluntary retirement or to be paid up front or face deployment.
When contacted, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, confirmed the impending reorganisation, noting that some departments are to be merged to ensure service delivery.
Idowu said the re-organisation was based on recommendation by an INEC consultant (Price Water), which advised that INEC was over bloated with redundant workers.
He disclosed that the civil society, gender, voter education and public affairs would now become the department of voter education, public relations and civil society.
Idowu said that the new departments would be headed by directors and there would also be directorates, adding that all the directors could not be accommodated with what was on ground.
He assured that there were wide consultations on the issue adding that nobody in the commission would be ill treated in the exercise.
He said part of the options that was put on the table was that those who had a short time left in the service were giving an option of taking their pay upfront or stay and to be reassigned.
He disclosed that the commission would soon commence continuous voter's registration exercise in 8,809 wards in the country.
He recalled that when the commission recruited workers for the exercise in 2012, only 1,500 people were engaged, adding this time around, there was need to deploy more workforces across the country.
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I just hope they won't dissappoint us when election start proper. That would be really disastrous. They have enought time to prepare now