AKSG Demands Comprehensive Audit Of Public Servants, Deployment Of Redundant Workers

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By Bassey Nkponam
UYO
The Akwa Ibom governor has demanded full and comprehensive audit of the 52,000 public servants in the State.
Pastor Umo Eno, who made the demand on Friday, during the inauguration of boards of the Akwa Ibom Investment Corporation (AKICORP) and that of the Akwa Ibom State Infrastructure and Assets Management and Maintenance Agency, at the State Executive Chambers, Governor’s Office, Uyo, also demanded for the deployment of redundant public servants in Abuja and Lagos to Akwa Ibom.
Eno, who was not satisfied with situations where public servants who had exited the service to another country were still placed on monthly salary, directed the Head of Civil Service, Elder Effiong Essien, to present to him a thorough and complete audit of the 52,000 public servants in Akwa Ibom, within two weeks.
He also directed the HOS to urgently provide a full audit of public servants in Abuja and Lagos, providing in details the specifics of their job responsibilities, and to ensure deployment where necessary, frowning at public servants in Abuja and Lagos occupying government assets free-of-charge and yet being unproductive.
The governor decried the lack of proper documentation in the State Civil Service which, he noted, was slowly eating up the Civil Service Commission, making reference to cases where workers who have exited the service to other countries were still on payroll till date, stressing thatany headof ministry who is covering up staff exhibiting lackadaisical attitude towards their work, will risk losing their job, urging them to ensure proper monitoring.
He also directed the secretary to the state government, Prince Enobong Uwah, to carry out full audit on all staff in every ministry under the state government, as it commences a massive crackdown on ministries dominant with workers from a particular local government area, saying that it was improper for heads of ministries to employ only people from their local government areas instead of spreading employment across other local government areas of the State.
  “Head of service I want an immediate audit of the staff you have in Abuja and Lagos and their job specifics. I give you two weeks. There must be a way of going through all of these things. We want to get it done.
  “I belief that we need to put our own ideas on the ground. We need to wind down the bureaucracy of technical matters. Put the staff there back into the civil service. We are setting up Agric committees, we need to engage them.
  “I have confidential report that some people who have exited the civil service are still receiving salaries. If there is any head that is covering for their staff, I will fire, when they don’t come to work or stop coming to work, I will fire you.We need to know where our 52,000 public servants are, and we can audit and track them. For too long we have allowed people do whatever they like.”