Heads may roll as TESCOM panel submits report...recommendations will determine govt action - SSG

Date: 2016-08-17

Heads may roll as the Kwara State Government promised to fully implement the report of the administrative panel on illegal mass recruitment into the State Teaching Service Commission. Alhaji Daibu who presented the report to the governor at the Government House, yesterday told the governor that the rot in the commission could be attributed to what he described as utter systemic collapse in the commission.

According to him, "Both the administrative and the pecuniary responsibility for this systemic failure and resultant financial loss to government are traceable to some key operators in the system. "The gross financial involvement in the exercise is as follows: "Approved 449 candidate. which cost N349,391,799.46 and additional 516 employees with financial implication of N453,275,848.20.

The state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed thanked the panel for a well done job, saying that the government would continue to follow due process in recruitment of teachers in the Teaching Service Commission and other state-owned educational institutions. He further explained that the committee was set up to rectify and identify anomalies in recruitment and also prevent future occurrence. He assured that the government would review and implement recommendations of the panel and other on-going investigative panels.

Meanwhile, as the public anxiously await the outcome of the report by the panel of inquiry into the alleged illegal recruitment of workers in the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission, the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Sola gold says the recommendations of the panel will determine actions to be taken by the government. Describing the shocking discoveries made panel as absurd, Alhaji Gold who spoke to The Herald in an exclusive interview in Ilorin yesterday blamed the development on systematic failure.

"Systematic failure led to the absurdity in the recruitment of illegal staff in the commission which was not authorized or approved by the governor," he stressed. The SSG who inaugurated the panel about two weeks ago, lamented that the illegal recruitment made the state government to lose N400m within the period of the illegal employment.

He noted among others that the needs assessment of the schools under the commission was not considered in the illegal and unapproved recruitment. The SSG explained that while 449 staff was approved for employment in core science and English subjects, including non-teaching staff, the commission shot the number to over 900 with its attendant consequences on the government purse. "Government will look at the panel's report and act accordingly," he declared.

Source:HeraldNews

 

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