Secret employment ongoing in Civil Service ― Senate

The Senate has bemoaned the high scale secret employment in the civil service despite claims that the Federal Government placed an embargo on job placement.

Worried about the high rate of unemployment in the country, the legislature regretted that bandits, kidnappers, and insurgents found an army of unemployed youths as a readily available recruitment ground.

The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs said the government should as a matter of urgency ensure recruitment of eligible Nigerians into public service.

Chairman of the Committee, Senator Danjuma La’ah made this known on Wednesday while submitting the report of the committee to the Senate Appropriation Committee compiling submission on the 2022 budget.

Senator La’ah challenged the Federal Government to come out with the evidence on the job embargo while standing his ground that top civil servants engaged in secret job placement.

The committee chairman said “many people are being secretly employed but those in charge are claiming that there is an 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 an 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 cost 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.”

The Senate Committee demanded that Federal Government should step up the 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,” he said.

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