Ajimobi
The Oyo State Government yesterday sacked 3,000 of its workers for alleged certificate forgery, falsified ages, among others.
The government said the exercise would save the integrity of the service.
In a statement in Ibadan, the state capital, by Dr Festus Adedayo, the Special Adviser (Media) to Governor Abiola Ajimobi, the government explained that those affected are workers identified to have violated the rules of their engagement.
The offences, according to the government, range from falsified ages and certificates, discovery of ghost workers without letters of appointment and those who were retired but were still on government’s payroll.
The others, the government added, included workers who had outstanding disciplinary cases against them.
The Ajimobi administration said it inherited a staff rationalisation list from the former administration, which used a management consultancy, Captain Consultin, to audit the records of public and civil servants and their positions.
After the audit, the government said, the consultancy outfit came up with the list of workers who had violated their rules of engagement and presented same to the former government.
According to the government, the Ajimobi administration was urged to note that allowing indicted workers to stay in the service would affect the morale of workers with genuine documents.
It said the government was also advised to note that such stance, if it was taken, was against equity and fair play.
The statement said the government, therefore, gave the affected workers the rights to fair hearing and set up a panel to review the consultant’s reports.
The government added that it secured an indemnity from the consulting firm to ascertain that due process was followed in compiling the list of the affected workers.
According to the government, after painstaking verification of the consultant’s claims, many of the workers, who were exonerated by the panel, had their names struck out of the list of those to be packing.
“The Oyo State Government is committed to improving the lot of workers in the state. It has done this in the past one year by paying more attention to workers’ welfare and promotion as at when due. It will not, in the spirit of the new Oyo State, abet the continued service of workers who forged their certificates, ages or those who violated their rules of engagement, to stay a day longer in the workforce. It is like a cancer which, if not promptly checked, can eat up the whole of the system,” the statement said.
Ajimobi will today swear in 11 Permanent Secretaries who were recently promoted in the civil service.
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