By Onomiguren Agbamu
The Chairman of Delta State civil service commission, who doubled as the Chairman of the screening committee, Chief Mrs. Roseline Amioku has clarified the alleged forcefully retirement of some civil servants in the ongoing screening exercise directed by the state governor for a better reform.
Mrs. Amioku disclosed this on Thursday when The Urhobo Voice and other journalists visited the commission complex in Asaba where the verification exercise is on going said those with age falsification, and questionable credentials are affected.
She explained that the ongoing screening exercise has revealed that the majority of those still working in the public service are above working age.
She said, “a lot of people who supposed to have retired from civil service are still working, reducing their age so that they can still be at work”
She maintained that “In the process of the verification exercise, the commission have discovered some person who finished primary school at age 2, others finishing secondary school at age 11, how can that be possible?
She noted that the state government is only doing the right thing, and not the narrative that is in public space that the government is forcefully retiring civil servants.
“ We have a lot of people in the payroll that are not working, some are not even in Nigeria but receiving salary from the state government, and we need to do this so that we know those working for the state government”.
She, however, urged civil servants to always give their real age to avoid being a victim and take the screening exercise in good fate, we are not oppressing anybody but to ascertain those who are really working in the civil service
Recall that some affected civil servants have accused the state government of forcefully retiring them from the public service when they just started enjoying the new minimum wage
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