FG Directs Mass Sack in Immigration, Prisons, Others

Wed, Jun 8, 2016
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BREAKING NEWS, Security

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THE federal government has directed massive retrenchment and retirements in all paramilitary agencies under the ministry of interior. The action is likely to put over 50 percent of current workforce out of job and worsen the already bloated unemployment market.

The directive came barely few days after President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration urged commercial banks operating in the country to halt ongoing mass sack of workers.

The directive is coming with the approval of Abdulrahman Dambazau, minister of interior, through a circular dated May 25, 2016 and addressed to all chiefs of services under the Interior Ministry namely Immigration, Prisons, Fire and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

President Buhari had hinted during a national broadcast on May 29 of plans to sack a good number of workers in the federal civil service. The President also disclosed that some 43,000 ghost workers had been discovered and weeded out from the civil service, leading to a saving of a whopping N4.2 billion monthly from the federal wage bill.

He had hinted that the plan to reduce the job lines in the federal ministries, departments and agencies had begun. Signed by A. A. Ibrahim, Director/Secretary of the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board, CDFIPB, the various heads of the agencies are by the directive, given a veiled order to commence its implementation after they have notified officers and men in their services.

The directive, a competent source at the Interior Ministry hinted, is sequel to earlier decision in December, last year, by the Joint Services Board (JSB), where it was resolved to “expand” the “parameters for retirement of officers and men” in the employment of agencies under the supervision of the board.

The Joint Services Board in that resolution, investigation revealed, opted to go beyond the extant civil service provisions with regard to when an officer exits the service to “import other parameters” which, according to our source, are not only irrelevant to the agencies but strange to the various Acts setting up the paramilitary bodies.

—  Jun 8, 2016 @ 12:58 GMT

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