One thousand and seventy one illegal workers have been discovered in the
employ of the Kwara State government.
The government said it lost N400 million monthly to the illegal workers
in the last few months.
Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development Alhaji Musa
Yeketi spoke at the book launch of the former Secretary to the State
Government (SSG), Alhaji Shehu AbdulGafar.
Yeketi attributed the incident to dishonesty among civil servants,
adding that appropriate actions were being taken against those
culpable.
A lawyer, Malam Yusuf Ali, in a paper, identified irregular salaries and
poor pay as some factors responsible for corruption and sharp
practices in the civil service.
“In recent times, top public officers have been accused of embezzling
gratuities and pensions of retired colleagues. Poor remuneration has
exposed civil servants to sharp practices; most of them demand money
before rendering their service to the public.
“They keep business letter-headed papers, invoice-receipts of their
companies and become suppliers and contractors, even in their offices,”
he said.
He also called for the training and retraining of civil servants to
enhance productivity.
“There is unfortunately a broad consensus among Nigerians that our
public service is both broken and dysfunctional.
“The quality of our public servants and the service they provide are
below expectation. Unlike the days of yore, when only the best and
brightest competed to join the administrative service, our public
service is now seen as the employer of the dull, the lazy and the
corrupt.”
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