{"id":109112,"date":"2023-11-08T17:52:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=109112"},"modified":"2023-11-08T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:52:43","slug":"senate-to-investigate-alleged-lopsided-recruitment-by-civil-service-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/senate-to-investigate-alleged-lopsided-recruitment-by-civil-service-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to investigate alleged lopsided recruitment by Civil Service Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Senate has directed its Committee on Establishment and Public Service Matters to investigate alleged lop-sided recruitment and deployment by the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This followed the adoption of a motion on \u201cUrgent need to ensure federal character principle, in the FCSC sponsored by Sen. Titus Zam (APC\u2019Benue) at plenary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the motion, Zam said that the FCSC was established with the responsibilities of recruitment and deployment of officers with requisite qualifications into the federal civil service.<\/p>\n<p>He said the commission had deviated from the federal character principle that ensured equity and fairness to all parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said the major platform on which the commission sought to realize its vision of building a highly focused, disciplined, committed, and patriotic civil service had turned counter-productive as it favoured only certain groups in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This, he said, was not consistent with the commission\u2019s vision as widely reported on recent allegations of illegal recruitment or employment by the service.<\/p>\n<p>He said the debilitating syndrome had so permeated government ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) saying virtually no ministry seemed to be insulated from the ugly trend.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan, had told journalists in July, ahead of the 2023 Civil Service Week, that the federal government had discovered 1,618 civil servants with fake employment letters.<\/p>\n<p>Zam said that the Benue North -West senatorial district had been marginalized, shortchanged, and neglected in the employment into the federal civil service,hence, he sponsored the motion.<\/p>\n<p>He said the introduction of the IPPIS was meant to curtail and ultimately eliminate illegalities in the civil and public service in terms of human resources and payroll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrets also that employees of government are capitalizing on insider abuse to undermine the efficiency of the IPPIS and to perpetrate unwholesome activities, resulting in cases of \u2018salary paddings\u2019, ghost names in government payrolls, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther recalls that in December 2021, a particular Ministry of the Federal Government alone weeded out a total of 1,020 of such illegally employed staff with over 300 employment letters further sent to be authenticated by the Federal Civil Service Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrongly argues that the mere removal of such names from payroll without prosecution will not deter those corruptly feasting from this exercise at the expense of a virile civil service backed up by a sound and foolproof IPPIS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConvinced that if urgent action is not taken to ensure Federal Character Principle and curb lopsidedness, will weaken the cohesion of the Civil Service with its attendant damage to governance and service delivery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has directed its Committee on Establishment and Public Service Matters to investigate alleged lop-sided recruitment and deployment by the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC). 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