joshuaAPC Condemns Governor Obaseki’s Last Minute Conversion Of SSAs ,SAs Into Civil Service Staff.
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City
The All Progressives Congress, APC has Condemned the last minute converting of his Senior Special Assistants (SSA) and Special Assistants (SA) into full time civil service staff.
The party in a release signed by a member of the Transition Committee, Prince Kassim Afegbua said it has discovered last minute conversion of Senior Special Assistants (SSA) and Special Assistants (SA) into full time civil service staff.
The statement reads:
“It has come to our notice that Governor Obaseki is presently converting his Senior Special Assistants (SSA) and Special Assistants (SA) into full time civil service staff.
He added 186 of such appointees in September this year to the already bloated number of aides around him and has just commenced the process of absorbing another 152 aides to compound the problem.
The interview is presently ongoing as part of effort to overburden the incoming administration with huge recurrent expenditure, aware that the state is already bugged down by huge debts burden.
Governor Obaseki, for eight years refused to recruit civil servants to fill up vacant positions and energize the civil service.
He also refused to set up the Civil Service Commission until two weeks ago, in the twilight of his failed administration.
We are alerting the public to be aware of Governor Obaseki’s deliberate engagement to stifle the resources of the state and pass on huge salaries and overhead to the incoming administration.
This is not only a wicked act but a huge disservice to the incoming administration of Senator Monday Okpebholo.
We have repeatedly stated the position of the incoming administration that anybody who is wrongly recruited or surreptitiously absorbed into the Civil Service, with backdated appointment letters would be relieved of his or her responsibility.
Recruitment into Civil Service must not only follow due process, there has to be a NEED for such persons who are so recruited.
This is to forewarn those who may fall into this deceit to be wary of Governor Obaseki’s dubious intentions. He concluded.
