Ekiti Assembly Service Commission releases staff audit report, exposes irregularities
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Ekiti Assembly Service Commission has released a report of its staff audit, citing a lot of irregularities, barely 24-hours after organised labour in the state had raised alarm that the commission was going to use the audit to illegally sack some staff.
Mr Taiwo Olatunbosun, Chairman of the Commission, disclosing details of the report to newsmen in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, said the audit had been concluded and that it was part of its efforts to put an end to irregularities.
” The audit ultimately discovered irregularities ranging from hiding, alteration, and mutilation of files, the advancement of staff without due process, appointees illegally retained in the system after expiration of tenure and arbitrary transfer of service without cognate experience.
The Ekiti State House of Assembly Service Commission on Tuesday dismissed 21 staff of the Assembly over irregular appointment and absenteeism among others.
The commission’s Chairman, Taiwo Olatunbosun, who disclosed this in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, said the staff were dismissed after the commission’s management reviewed the report of a staff audit undertaken last year in a bid to reorganize the Assembly for effective service delivery.
He said: “The audit which discovered some irregularities ranging from hiding, alteration and mutilation of files, advancement of staff without due process, appointees illegally retained in the system after expiration of tenure, arbitrary transfer of service without cognate experience, overage staff members, irregular appointments/promotion of staff without approval, cases of forgeries and arbitrary placement of officers with utter disregard to scheme of service among others.
Ekiti Assembly sacks workers as Labour protests
Chairman of the Commission, Honourable Taiwo Olatunbosun stated this in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday.
Honourable Olatunbosun said the decision was taken in compliance with the report of staff audit undertaken as part of the efforts to reorganize the commission for effective service delivery.
Speaking further, Olatunbosun said the audit, which started last year on assumption of office of the present Commission members engaged the services of Auditors over complaints, agitations and petitions from members of staff on allegations of absenteeism, arbitrary promotion and placement of officers above colleagues without regards to scheme of service.
Protest as Ekiti Assembly allegedly sacks workers
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti
There was a protest on Tuesday in Ekiti state as about 21 workers allegedly sacked by the Ekiti State House of Assembly and organised labour, on Tuesday, protested against the State House of Assembly over their “unjust dismissal” from the service of the House.
The protest, led by labour leaders, was held within the premises of the Assembly complex, where they rendered series of derisive songs to castigate the Ekiti State Assembly Service Commission over the action.
Addressing the dismissed workers, the Secretary of the Ekiti State Joint Negotiating Council, Com. Gbenga Olowoyo, said it was wrong for the Commission to have speedily sent the names of the affected workers to Accountant General to stop their salaries, while negotiation lasted.