Why I didn’t sack civil servants employed by Amosun- Abiodun

Ogun state Governor, Dapo Abiodun says the need to do what is right and in keeping with the covenant he made to serve the people prevented his administration from disengaging civil servants employed at the twilight of the last administration.

Gov. Abiodun, who stated this at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, when he met with about 2, 000 recently absorbed civil servants, said his ascension to power was through the benevolence of the Almighty and the goodwill of the people, hence he would not embark on any witch -hunt.

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“We are not an administration that is here to witch-hunt anybody, but to do that which we believe is right before God and man. My agreement is with God, myself and all the people of Ogun state who voted me into office. Anything I do, I do it with a clean conscience,” he said.

The governor explained that his administration has set up a committee to look into all appointments made at the twilight of the past administration with the view to having first hand information on why it hurriedly employed new workers, despite the fact that the process of employment started a year before the hand -over of power.

Gov. Abiodun noted that after viewing the last minute appointments with lots of suspicions, he opted to absorb the workers and pay their full salaries. 

“We viewed the employment with lots of suspicion because we wondered why an administration would employ people at the twilight of their exit. Was it a deliberate attempt to inflict the wage bill and make the state unmanageable for us?

“On assumption, we took a closer look by setting up a committee to look at all these promotions and appointments. Having reviewed the report of that committee, we decided that the right, just and equitable thing to do is to absorb all of you formally and that we did.

“Not only did we do that, we did that and also decided that you deserve to be paid from the time you received your letter of employment till date,” he stated.

Also, the governor reaffirmed that his administration would continue to be just, equitable and fair to all manner of people, admonishing them to contribute their quota towards making the state great.

“I just want to charge all of you that now that we have given you this opportunity, please, make sure that you justify it; do not do anything that will give us cause to regret the day we decided to absorb you. We expect that you will be role models in all the areas where you will be serving,” he said.

Responding, the Head of Service, Amope Chokor, while charging the new workers to hit the ground running and make the government and the people feel their impact in order to justify their absorption, thanked the governor for his gesture, saying that the decision is a welcome development.