Kogi gov inaugurates appeal c’ttee over staff screening reports
The Kogi State Governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello has inaugurated a 32-man Staff Screening Complaint and Appeal Committee to review the cases of workers whose names appeared on uncleared list and those whose names were omitted from the list.
Inaugurating the committee yesterday in Government House, Lokoja, Bello charged the committee to do a though job and submit a comprehensive report to him within six weeks.
The governor who said his government was not insensitive to the plight of the civil servants in the state, regretted the inconvenience the exercise might have caused workers, saying that it had become expedient to reform the civil service.
“The civil service is known to be an engine room of any government, and where the engine is not effective as a result of existing anomalies, government will not be able to function properly and that is what we want to address in the interest of the state and its people. We are desirous of ensuring that nobody is shortchanged in the process of the civil service reform. That is why we have constituted this committee to attend to genuine complaints with a view to addressing them,” he said.
In his remark, the Chairman of the committee and Director of Studies, Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Mr John Yila Ayuba assured that the committee would do a credible job.