The Nigeria’s Senate on Wednesday in Abuja condemned the
alleged high scale secret employment in the civil service despite claims that
the federal government placed embargo on job placement.
This was even as the upper legislative chamber noted with
displeasure that many unemployed youths have found insurgency, banditry,
kidnapping and other criminal acts as lucrative businesses and easy means of
employment.
Therefore, the Senate Committee on Federal Character and
Inter- Governmental Affairs, has called on the government, to as a matter of
urgency, ensure recruitment of eligible Nigerians into public service without
further delay.
Chairman of the committee, Senator Danjuma La’ah (PDP Kaduna South) made the appeal yesterday while submitting the report of the committee on 2022 budget to the Committee on Appropriations.
Senator La’ah challenged the federal government to come out
with evidence on job embargo while standing his ground that top civil servants
engaged in secret job placement.
He said: “Many people are being secretly employed, but those
in charge are claiming that there is embargo on employment. I don’t know where
they got that from. We have been asking them. The President has not opened his
mouth to say that there is embargo on employment.
“There is no embargo anywhere, but some of the officials of
government are so myopic that they decide to take advantage of the situation.
“I have been challenging those who are engaging in secret
recruitments claiming there is embargo to show us where they got the
information from. This is the time for them to increase their personnel costs
and make provision for employment.
“People are retiring voluntarily, but we don’t know how they
are being replaced. We must know the particular number of people they want to
employ.
“We discovered that young Nigerians who graduated from
higher institutions some 15 years ago had yet to gain employment. The
development had aggravated insecurity all over the places including insurgency,
banditry, kidnapping and other criminal activities.”
Senator La’ah, therefore, asked the federal government to
step up process of employment to engage millions of Nigerians.
“Some people are taking advantage of the situation (embargo
on employment), but our committee is desirous of doing the right thing. We are
determined that there should be jobs for the graduates that we have in this
country, no matter what it takes.
“Our committee has been going to ministries, departments and
agencies of government that they must start recruitment instead of doing secret
replacements. We had even asked them to increase their personnel cost in their
budgets so that they could employ people,” the lawmaker stressed.
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