The Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru
Jega, on Monday reviewed his tenure as
the chairman of the electoral body, saying
his only regret was his inability to create
separate salary structure for those
working with the commission.
Jega spoke in Abuja during a retreat
organised for the electoral officers of the
commission where the 2015 elections
were reviewed.
The retreat was titled “2015 general
elections: lessons and way forward.”
Jega also declared that the staff of the
commission were subjected to difficult
circumstances during the course of the
2015 elections.
He said apart from the special salary
issue, the commission, under his
leadership, performed well.
But he regretted that despite the
undertaking he said he made when he
assumed office on the need to create
special salary structure for the members
of staff of the commission, he was unable
to accomplish that up till now.
He said, “I must say that we have been
mindful of the need to keep on motivating
the staff to keep on improving condition of
service and condition of work. And to keep
on improving the welfare of the staff.
“We have done our best as a commission
under very difficult circumstances and my
major regret, as I have always
acknowledged, is that a major
undertaking we made when we first came
in as a commission, which is to have a
separate salary structure for the staffs of
the commission, we have not been able to
get.
“And obviously this is one area where we
still have to do a lot of work and put in a
lot of effort as we move towards the
future and to improve.
“But apart from that, I don’t think we
have done badly in terms of promoting
the welfare and the well-being of the staff.
“We have ensured that salaries were paid
regularly, we have ensured that there are
a lot of opportunity for self improvement
through the organisation of seminar and
workshop with partners.”
He said he was aware that there was no
way the commission could satisfy
everyone, saying that some were not
happy when the commission moved some
of its members of staff to different
departments.
He said, “Again as I said, we could not
have satisfied the expectations of
everybody, we believe that we have done
our best.
“I must say that not all of you are happy
with perhaps with some of the measures
that we have introduced as a
commission.
“The restructuring and reorganisation
certainly could not have satisfied
everybody because it required trimming
down the size of the commission and also
redefining schedule of responsibilities,
putting square pegs in square holes as
we called it at that time.”
Inspite of all, he said he was of the
opinion that the outcome of the
restructuring and reorganisation had
been beneficial to the commission.

Regretting already, abi Tinubu no gree pay you?

Hmmmm.....

Well, he should just retire happily

No regrets. You did what u were asked to do. You did not fail ur people. You can go to Saudi for settlement.

No regrets for men like Napoleons of Nigeria. Your role was to bring our long time choice and you played the game well. So leave without any regrets Sir.
God bless PMB
God bless JEGA
God bless Nigeria.

kaorama:
No regrets. You did what u were asked to do. You did not fail ur people. You can go to Saudi for settlement.

says who?

I agree wit u sir, u rily performed wella

His regret should have been "My inability to curb underage voting"

Mtcheew

of course he doesn't regret orchestrating d ‘FREE n FAIR RIGGING' that brought in d Daura President!!

At least you did your Job to a certain level of fairness and you brought in babaonechance

jega is inrellevant; so you can retire and do something else with your life instead of receiving glory that u never earned. Muslim idiot.

Muslim in Nigeria should plz convert to Buddhism which is slightly reasonable

Hmm wel no cause for alarm ,as salary are bin slashed now so they shud find themselves vry unlucky.

That your regret could be remedied by your successor. If you had pushed harder for salary increase for members of staff of your commission, may be you might be compelled to compromise on some other important issues that have direct bearing on Nigeria's citizenry.

I admire your courage sir. contest number one position in Nigeria and i will vote for you.
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