From Yusuf Alli, Abuja


No less than 18 states have low representation in appointments into the Federal Civil Service and agencies, a 117-page report submitted to President Umaru Yar’Adua by the Federal Character Commission (FCC)has shown.

The 2007 report was presented to the President last Wednesday by the FCC.

According to the report, signed by FCC Chairman Prof. Shuaib Oba AbdulRaheem, the 18 states are not benefiting adequately from the Federal Character Principle in the 1999 Constitution.

Each of the 36 states is expected to have about 2.5 % and 3.0% representation in appointments made by Federal Ministries and Extra-Ministerial Departments.

As for staff on GL 15 and above, the formula is 15% and 18% lower and upper limits of representation by each.

But, it has been discovered that while there are 47,784 in Ministries/Extra-Ministerial Departments, the returns from the nation’s 114 Federal Parastatals indicate a staff strength of 79,388.

Of the 47,784 in Federal Ministries, 16,189 are on levels 01-06; 33,361(GL 07 -15); and 1,422 on GL 15 and above.

The breakdown of the 79,388 staff of Federal parastatals is as follows: 31,205(GL 01-06); 48,183(GL 07-15); and 5,151(GL 15 and above)

But the report indicates that 18 states are under-represented in recruitment into Federal Ministries and Agencies.

The states being under-represented from GL 01 to 15 are: Lagos(2.0%); Adamawa(1.7%); Bauchi (1.4%); Bayelsa (0.5%); Borno(1.8%); Ebonyi(0.7%); Ekiti(2.1%); Gombe(0.9%); Jigawa(0.8%); Kebbi(0.6%); Nasarawa(1.9%); Plateau(2.1%); Rivers(1.2%); Sokoto(0.7%); Taraba(0.5%); Yobe(0.6%); Zamfara(0.4%) and FCT(0.3%).

The report adds: "From the above, 18 states each had percentage representation below the prescribed 2.5% lower limit; 14 were above 3.0% upper limit, while five fell within the prescribed range."

A highly-placed source said: "By implications, it means that recruitments into the Federal Civil Service over the years do not favour indigenes of the 18 states.

"Also in the next few years, these 18 states may not have civil servants from their states in the hierarchy of the Federal Civil Service.

"Both the FCC and the affected states have to ensure that their employment quotas are filled."

States with high representation in Federal Ministries are Imo(7.3%) ; Delta(5.9%); Kogi(5.8%); Edo(5.6%); Ogun(5.0%); Akwa Ibom(4.8%); Benue( 4.2%); Ondo(4.1%); Abia (4.1%); Anambra(4.1%)Osun(4.0%); Oyo(3.5%); Enugu(3.5%) and Cross River(3.2%).

On appointments into top echelon of the Federal Civil Service(from where directors and Permanent Secretaries emerge), the report claims that of 1,422 staff on Grade Level 15 and above, 10 of the 36 states account for 687(48.3%).

The states are: Anambra(6.5%); Ogun(5.8%); Imo(5.6%); Kogi(4.8%); Osun(4.8%); Kano(4.5%); Delta(4.2%); Oyo(4.2%); Lagos(4.0%); and Ondo(4.0%).

But states whose indigenes constitute less than 1.5% and 2.4% are Yobe, Sokoto, Nasarawa, Taraba, Zamfara, Ebonyi, Bayelsa, FCT Borno, Enugu, Cross River, Plateau, Kebbi, Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Akwa Ibom, Jigawa and Rivers.

The Federal Character Commission, however, said in the report that there was no cause for alarm as it had started addressing the lopsidedness in appointments.

The report adds: "The Commission is mandated by Paragraph 8(1) of Section C, Part I, Third Schedule to the Constitution and Section 5(1) (e) of its Enabling Act to demand and receive returns on employment and socio-economic indices from any enterprise or body corporate and penalise any enterprise which does not comply with a request from the commission.

"On the operations of the Commission for the period covered by the report, monitoring of MDAs and enforcement of compliance with Federal Character Principle and Formulae showed the following; Interview monitored(46); Interventions(17); Investigations(12); Interactive meetings(6) and Summons(6).

"During the year, the returns from Federal Ministries/Extra-Ministerial Departments were analysed
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