Kano govt begins verification of 10,800 new workers employed by Ganduje
The Kano State Government has inaugurated a 22-man committee for the verification of 10,800 civil servants employed by the immediate past administration.
Recall that former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje had conducted what could be described as a last-minute recruitment in the twilight of his administration, employing thousands of civil servants.
Suspecting anomalies in the recruitment process on assumption into office, the present administration of Governor Abba Yusuf vowed to investigate the exercise.
Inaugurating the committee in his office on Wednesday, the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Dr Abdullahi Baffa-Bichi, alleged that the recruitment was conducted without following the laid down rules and regulations.
Mr Bichi said: “Recall that the present administration had after its inauguration, inherited a number of challenges from the immediate past administration that currently have spillover effects on the state’s polity, which necessitated initiating measures aimed at addressing them.
“Such challenges include unwarranted deductions of salaries and pensions of civil servants and pensioners respectively, non-evacuation of refuse that littered nooks and crannies of the State, abandoned healthcare and emergency services, non-supply of diesel to support the street lights in the metropolis and so on.
“Another issue, which informed our gathering here, was the last minute employment of over 10,000 Civil Servants without following the laid down rules and regulations governing employment into the civil service.
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“Government viewed this as an anomaly and therefore, resolved to set up a committee to study and review the entire process, with a view to determining whether or not the employment process was informed by the expressed manpower need and requirement of the affected MDAS or are just based on certain primordial considerations suggesting nepotism as alleged;
“Other mandates assigned to the committee include compiling the list of the already employed staff as well as establish the financial implications on State finances and ascertain whether budgetary provisions were adhered to followed:
“Identify those already enlisted into the state payroll, sequel to their recruitment cum those that are yet to receive appointment letters following the stoppage of the exercise by the present Government;
“Government expects you to use your wealth of experience to assiduously execute this assignment and submit a report within two weeks from this date of inauguration.”
The committee headed by the Chairman of the state Civil Service Commission, Umar Shehu-Minjibir, was given three weeks to complete their assignment.
While charging the committee to use their experience to give the government advice on the way forward, the SSG, therefore, said the state government would welcome any recommendations by the committee.
In his response, the chairman of the committee assured the state government of the committee’s commitment to doing justice to the assignment.
He said: “I want to assure you also that we are going to do justice to those civil servants that were employed doing the last lap of the immediate-past administration, and that we will do our assignment without fear or favor.
“I assure the SSG and the governor that we will do this assignment within the stipulated time. We are not going to disappoint you.
“Like I said, we will look at both sides, the government side, and the side of those civil servants who were employed by the immediate-past administration.”
