{News} 4,904 workers recruited by Jonathan may lose jobs.
The jobs of 4,904 civil servants, who
were recruited by the Federal Civil Service Commission in the last
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, are under threat as
the Federal Character Commission has queried the exercise.
It was learnt on Monday that moves by
the Federal Civil Service Commission to sack the workers had led to a
crisis in the civil service.
No fewer than 247 of the affected
workers had petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and other
related offences Commission over a plan by the FCSC to sack them.
The Acting Executive Chairman of the
Federal Character Commission, Dr. Shettima Abba, had queried the
Chairman of the FCSC, Mrs. Joan Ayo, for alleged violation of the
principle of federal character in the employment of the civil servants
in a letter dated May 3, 2016.
He said the recruitment, which took
place between 2013 and 2015, was characterised by a flagrant abuse of
the Federal Character principle.
Abba alleged that the recruitment was tilted in favour of the South-South geopolitical zone against other parts of the country.
He pointed out that the South-South got
33.6 per cent of those employed as against the 26.2 per cent allotted to
applicants from the North-East, North-West and North-Central
geopolitical zones.
He directed the civil service
commission’s boss to ensure that the perceived inequality was addressed
in the 2016 recruitment by the commission in accordance with the
provisions of the Federal Character Commission.
Abba stated, “The Federal Character
Commission has viewed and observed with concern the recruitment
exercises undertaken by the Federal Civil Service between 2013 and 2015,
which glaringly is lopsided and grossly abused the principle of Federal
Character to which all institution have subscribed.
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