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From Desmond Mgboh, Kano
Kano State Government, on Friday, gave details of how the former government of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje embarked on a last-minute recruitment of staff into the service without recourse to the rules and regulations.
Secretary to the State Government, Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, disclosed this during a press conference to intimate the public on the findings of the verification committee set up to screen the employment of the immediate past administration.
According to him, the committee discovered that they recruited underage persons, including a 13-year-girl, whose salaries were paid into her mother’s account.
He regretted that they also recruited students of junior and senior secondary schools, current undergraduates and serving members of the National Youth Service Corps into the civil service.
He said that the committee also found that the majority of those recruited were not captured in the 2023 approved budget while a significant number of them neither applied nor indicated interest to serve with the state civil service.
The SSG also revealed that it was discovered that some of the recruits had forged or had suspicious certificates while many of them were non-indigenes, despite that a number of qualified indigenes were roaming the streets unemployed.
Baffa, however, revealed that the governor, in his humane disposition, had granted leave for the reinstatement of 9332 of 12,566 staffers that were found to be eligible by the committee.
He added that those with offers but were not on the payroll would be subjected to further interview while adding that the recruits would be properly deployed to relevant MDAs for optimal utilisation.
He added that those within the service who were complicit in the breach of the service rules would be sanctioned according to the rules of the civil service.
