FG to employ 15,000 graduates
Clement Idoko, Abuja - 18.06.2008

THE Federal Government on Tuesday said that it would soon commence recruitment of about 15,000 young graduates into the Federal Civil Service in the country.


Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, Ambassador Ahmed Al-Gazali, made this known in Abuja at the 2008 ministerial press briefing on the activities of his commission.


He disclosed that this was in response to the directive by President Umaru Yar’Adua on the engagement of 3,000 professionals into the Federal Civil Service annually for the next five years in order to address the high rate of unemployment in the country.


He said already, modalities had been worked out for the recruitment and that the process would be made public as soon as all arrangements were concluded.


He, however, expressed worry that following the removal of over 48,000 workers from the Federal Civil Service due to the recent downsizing exercise, the commission had been inundated with both reasonable and frivolous suits against the Federal Government represented by the Federal Civil Service Commission in the last 12 months.


Al-Gazali said, “Between January and May, 2008 alone, over 68 summons were received from the court by the Federal Civil Service Commission, upon which it has entered appearance in all.


“Also, 30 cases of some “professional” litigants who take delight in commencing vexatious and frivolous cases were dismissed by the court.


“Currently, the commission has 12 appeals pending at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, five at the Court of Appeal, Lagos, and two at the Court of Appeal, Benin City,” he stated.


He added that “the major constraint here is the lack of funds to effectively prosecute these cases.” He also disclosed that the commission had been working assiduously on the reinstatement of the workers that were wrongly disengaged based on the presidential directives.


Already, he said many of those whose cases had been reviewed and found to be wrongly removed had been reabsorbed.

__________________

God first, family second and career third.
www.marykay.com/adanna

Let's hope this is progress being made in the right direction.

__________________
I am what I am.