Adamawa Government on Sunday said its decision to administer the oath of secrecy on its workers was to stop further leakage of government secrets.
The state Head of Service, Malam Musa Kaibo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola that the government was concerned over the attitude of some civil servants who revealed top government secrets.
He said that such action would no longer be tolerated.
“Government is appealing to the civil servants to keep its records secret”, he said, adding that a circular had been issued to all ministries, parastatals agencies and boards to administer the oath.
“In April, the department of establishments through a circular directed all deputy permanent secretaries, accounts staff and workers in the secret registries to take oath of secrecy before Magistrates.
“This, they have done. I will like to remind them to abide by the oath of secrecy or the law will take its course,” Kaibo warned.
NAN reports that those who took the oath were workers on the levels of directors, deputy directors, assistant directors and confidential secretaries. (NAN)