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Okon commends FG on re-absorption of 17,000 civil servants into IPPIS, tasks workers on orderly behaviour

National President of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Comrade Tommy Etim Okon, has commended the Federal Government for accepting and implementing the union’s demand of reopening the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) portal for the over 17,000 civil servants who were delisted to be reabsorbed.

Comrade Okon also charged civil servants undergoing physical verification exercise at the Public Service Institute in Abuja to conduct themselves maturely for the exercise to be conducted in orderly manner.

He also pleaded with officers from the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) supervising the exercise to be circumspect and patient with the workers so that the exercise can be carried out seamlessly.

The ASCSN national president, in a press statement, said, “As I speak right now, delisted officers are undergoing physical verification at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria in Abuja. The exercise started on Monday October 16 and will go on till Friday October 27.”

Comrade Okon noted that the OHCSF has also directed that pregnant women and nursing mothers should go to the office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation in Abuja for their own verification.

“I urge pregnant women and nursing mothers to comply with this directive because it is intended to show compassion for this category of workers undergoing the exercise.

“I equally plead with our teeming members undergoing the verification exercise to conduct themselves maturely despite the pressure they are passing through,” he added.

He also suggested that the OHCSF should consider decongesting the crowd at the Public Service Institute further by identifying other ministries that can carry out the exercise in a day to mitigate the tension and rowdiness at the venue.

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