We have no hand in the purported sack of 726 civil servants: Niger State Civil Service Commission (CSC) cries out… NigerInfoBulletin

 

We have no hand in the purported sack of 726 civil servants: Niger State Civil Service Commission (CSC) cries out… NigerInfoBulletin.

The permanent commissioner, Niger State Civil Service Commission Com. Adams Erena, has cleared the air on purported mass sack circulating on the social media for some time now in the state.

Com. Erena stated this while speaking before the Ad-hoc Committee on salary irregularities in the State House of Assembly, said “the list circulating on social media purported to have originated from the commission was doubtful, and wondered who approved the dismissal list”.

He added that as a permanent commissioner in the Commission, they also saw the list of dismissed staff on the social media, just like any other person declaring that, up till the last minute they were in the office, no issue of staff dismissal was brought to their table.

 

 

 

He explained further that “matters of such magnitude were not handled by individuals, but the commission, which comprises all the five members including the chairman”. He disclosed that “the commission has never sat on the dismissal of any civil servant”, adding that the only case known to him and others at the Commission were “seven out of the 83 recommended by Panti Salary Management Committee, whose case was treated within the purview of due process”.

 

The permanent commissioner was reported to have said it was "an aberration of the civil service rules and privileges for anyone to sit somewhere and dish out list of civil servants, and said they were dismissed without going through the civil service commission".

 

He was reported to have added that “Till the time we left office, to the last minute that our tenure expired, we have not sat as a commission to treat any matter such as the mass dismissal of civil servants, and we have not directed the permanent secretary to do anything resembling that.

 

“The civil service commission by law is empowered to employ, promote, discipline including dismissing civil servants. And no authority has the power to do that except the commission and we didn’t do that to the best of my knowledge “he explained further.

 

He told the House Committee that their tenure as commission members had expired on July 27, and the purported list of those dismissed was issued on 30th July, wondering how this could happen.

 

He said the civil service was an organized institution with laid down rules and regulations, pointing out that he will be right to say due process was not followed in the case of the affected officers.