FG won’t restructure workforce, HoS assures

Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, on Monday assured civil servants that the Federal Government has no intention of restructuring its workforce any time soon.

She said this while addressing participants of class 22 of the Policy, Strategy and Leadership Course of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Abuja.

This is coming as President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, ordered the suspension of tenure policy in the Federal Civil Service, introduced by late President Umaru Yar’Adua in 2009, which sets a four-year tenure, renewable only once for permanent secretaries in the Federal Civil Service in line with the 1999 Constitution.

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Ripples Nigeria, had in its earlier report interpreted the implication of the latest policy by the President as a ploy by the government to find a way of reorganising the top echelon of the civil service, with consequent job losses down the line running into thousands.

This argument may be based on the statement of the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, when she stated that in the first quarter of the year that government, through its internal mechanisms, uncovered over 50,000 ghost workers which assisted government in checkmating rising wage bill.

Because this new policy direction is coming at a time government is having hard time in meeting its huge wage bill, it may not be out of point for one to think is a means of downsizing in the face of dwindling revenue.

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