Kogi workers screening: My role in employment of WASC holder as medical officer – Philips Salawu

The former, Kogi State Deputy Governor, Dr. Phillips Omeiza Salawu, weekend explained his role in the employment of WASC holder as medical officer while in office.

Dr Salawu in an exclusive interview with Vanguard in Kano stated that it is the custom of the political offices like the Governor and Deputy Governor’s Office to create employments upon assumption of office by the principal.

Dr Salawu said that he created some offices “including P. A., S. A., Press Secretary, Director of Protocol, Medical Officer, Hair Dresser, Barber, Chief Security Officer, Office Assistant, etc. as obtainable in the Governor’s Office.”

Phillips Salawu stressed that “these offices were political and their occupants were not there on merit but on political considerations.”

Offering details of the inner workings of the arrangement, the former Deputy Governor revealed that “the salary grade levels of such officers had no bearings with their paper qualifications because consideration was mainly political.”

Salawu further revealed that “at the time his tenure was wounding up my political staff that wished to work in Civil Service were advised to reapply and be considered for Civil Service Placements, successful applicants for the Civil Service employments were later given appropriate letters reflecting their experience and paper qualifications.”

Dr Philips Salawu disclosed that “what happened in the case of one Mrs. Vivian Salawu who was politically placed as a medical officer and when the tenure of the Deputy Governor was expiring, she later got reviewed to a clerical staff, downgraded from her former political status of grade level 13.”

Accordingly, “the clerical level letter of appointment is what is required for the current screening exercise and not the political employment letter which had ceased at the expiration of the tenure of the Deputy Governor.”

The former Deputy Governor declared that “the grade level 13 employment letter being paraded by Mrs. Vivian Salawu was a political appointment and she had since for the past 5 years been degraded to her proper clerical level on which she should be cleared in the screening exercise as a bonafide staff and not a ghost worker”.

Vanguard, February 6, 2017

 

 

 

 

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