Several permanent secretary
hopefuls in Ebonyi failed to recite the national anthem and questions about the
capital of states in an interview session on Tuesday.
NAN reports that the oral
interview, which came after a written test was supervised by David Umahi,
Ebonyi governor and his deputy, Kelechi Igwe, who was the chairman of the
interview committee.
The interview session was televised
live by the state’s television network.
Two of the permanent secretary
hopefuls, who are top civil servants, failed to recite the national anthem
while another two could not recite the states in Nigeria and their capitals.
A particular candidate said that
the capital of Kwara is Kwara and that capital of Lagos is Lagos while another
said that the Anambra capital is Anambra.
An amused Umahi jokingly told one
of the interviewees to ask her children at home to teach her how to recite the
states and their capitals.
The governor noted that two
persons each from the 13 local government areas of the state were selected,
making them 26, including three serving permanent secretaries.
“The appointment of new permanent
secretaries will be based on their performances in the exercise as my
administration is poised toward reforming the state’s civil service.
He noted, however, that only
intelligent and resourceful candidates would be selected to assist in
repositioning the civil service.
The Ebonyi civil service had been
run without permanent secretaries since the inception of the Umahi
administration and the development had elicited diverse speculations,
especially from opposition parties in the state.
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