…Confirms Fixing Challenges
The
Oyo State Government has hinged the delay in the outcome of workers’
audit and verification on failure of about 12, 000 workers in the State
Civil service to participate in the exercise.
Commissioner
for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun, who made
the disclosure in Ibadan, also confirmed that the State Government has
mandated the yet-to-be registered workers to do so in earnest.
He
stressed the commitment of the Governor Seyi Makinde-led administration
to establish a comprehensive database and proper identity management
system that would aid effective payment and verification of its
workforce.
He said, “despite critics
castigating the registration and verification of its workforce, the Oyo
State Government has expressed continued commitment to the entire civil
service”.
Dr. Olatubosun insisted that after
completion, the registration will block every loop hole in the state
civil service and guard against the menace of ghost workers.
Olatubosun
who confirmed that the process started over a year ago, expressed
displeasure over the insinuation that the exercise was a scam, saying
such rumour was made without facts.
He
announced that having completed the process, the State Government will
fish out ghost workers and ascertain the number of workers and retirees
on government payroll.
“Except for the
unfounded insinuations from some quarters, the Oyo State Government is
encouraged by the response of citizens, residents and workers to the
ongoing exercise. Many Civil servants have registered so far and those
who are yet to, have been given the opportunity to. In the work-force,
this will block so many loopholes’ Olatubosun stated.
‘I am aware that new registrants are at the ICT office, participating in the audit exercise for workers’, he stated.
“With
the development, civil servants, public officials, teachers, local
government employees and retirees have been screened in phases during
the exercise that commenced over a year ago at the state secretariat in
Ibadan”.
Dr. Olatubosun said the exercise which
is aimed at ascertaining the people drawing money from the government’s
coffers, added that the exercise was not basically about verification
of certificates, but for the government to curb wastage, plug leakages
in its payroll and have valid data for planning.
E-signed:Hon. Wasiu Olatubosun, Ph.D.,Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism,Oyo State.