Kogi sacks 100 environmental health workers, declares position vacant
Despite assurances that no genuinely employed worker will be affected by the ongoing screening and verification exercise, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has sacked 100 workers.
The affected workers who were ad hoc staff since 2012 and offered appointment letters in September 2015 were asked to leave or re-apply despite the fact that they are currently on the pay role of the government.
The affected workers were volunteers that have toiled to maintain the sanity of the state capital as ad hoc staff.
Commissioner of Environment and Natural Resources, Hon. Rosemary Ojochenem Osikoya, in a memo to the acting Permanent Secretary of the ministry dated February 9, 2017 titled ‘Recruitment of Environmental Health Assistants,’ ordered for the sack of the workers premised on alleged dismal performance to street cleaning and perpetual failure to show up at designated job stations.
Mrs. Osikoya also stated that frequent resort to ad hoc staff for cleaning critical areas was embarrassing to the state government and therefore ordered that the positions of Environmental Health Attendants be declared vacant.
According to the Commissioner’s directive all current interested Environmental Health Attendants who are still interested should be advised to re-apply alongside other interested applicants in the proposed recruitment of new Environmental Health Assistants that ends February 14, 2014.
The directive also called for the files of all Environmental Health Attendants with pensionable appointments as well performance records with comments for each based on the published observations of the staff verification report.
The Commissioner also ordered that the Junior Staff Management Committee be constituted to conduct the recruitment of the new Environmental Health Assistants to end by Friday 27 February.
