Promotions in federal civil service: Stagnated directors grumble
ON January 10, 2017 4:19 AM / IN News /
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By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor & Favour Nnabugwu


ABUJA —There is unease in the Federal Civil Service over the non-promotion of qualified directors, who have been stagnant on their current posts for many years.



The affected directors, who were due for promotion, according to findings by Vanguard , have been forced to remain on their current positions and are losing hundreds of millions of Naira that should have accrued to them if they had been promoted as at when due.


According to some of the directors, who were due for promotion since 2013, they might be forced to take their case to President Muhammadu Buhari, if the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, does not act swiftly to save them from further stagnation and deprivation arising from their non-elevation.


Most of the affected top civil servants were due for promotion from Assistant to Deputy Directors and from Deputy to Directors since 2012.
Most disappointing to the affected bureaucrats is the fact that many of them do not have many years to spend in the civil service either on account of age or years of service to the nation.



One of the men, who took promotion examination to be promoted from Assistant to Deputy Director in one of the federal ministries, told Vanguard that he was disappointed, having passed the qualifying examination last year only to be told that there was no vacancy for him to be promoted to the next level.


Findings by Vanguard showed that the stagnation in the nation’s civil service stems from the suspension of the tenured policy by the Buhari administration, an innovation that was put in place by the previous administration to create room for more qualified public servants to grow and reach the apex of their careers before retiring.


Under the tenured policy, all directors who have served up to eight years on one post are to give way for new ones.


The arrangement created new openings for the prompt retirement of civil servants and created room for the promotion of others with ease.


However, for reasons yet to be made public, the Buhari administration on assumption of office suspended the policy and invariably returned to the old practice in which directors can serve for as many years as they can as long as they can ‘prove’ that they have not reached the retirement age of 60 or 35 years in service.


But the Director of Communication in the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Haruna Imrana, defended the action of the government, saying that decision to drop the policy was contained in a circular to all ministries, departments and agencies, signed by the HOCSOF, Winifred Oyo-Ita.


The policy, introduced by a former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye, under the late President Umaru Yar’Adua administration, prescribed two terms of four years each for permanent secretaries of ministries, while directors were entitled to an eight-year tenure.


The policy also affected top level officers in federal ministries, departments and agencies.


The circular, which conveyed the president’s directive on the suspension, said the order took immediate effect, while all concerned were urged to comply accordingly.

He said the implication was that civil servants could now stay in service until they were 35 years in service or they turn 60.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/promotions-federal-civil-service-stagnated-directors-grumble/

Good for them.
They shud feel the pain of their subordinates when they denied them promotions.

Karma is a bitchhh...

Naija politicians are always up for the money and AWOL for the work.

That's real 'gobe'.

According to some of the directors, who were due for promotion since 2013, they might be forced to take their case to President Muhammadu Buhari, if the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, does not act swiftly to save them from further stagnation and deprivation arising from their non-elevation.

Can you imagine?

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They shld take heart good things happen to those who wait

hmm

Targaeryian:
Good for them.
They shud feel the pain of their subordinates when they denied them promotions.

Karma is a bitchhh...

no be the directors say make their subordinates no go now.

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Normal Anywhere ... There's a rank you'll reach and the promotion will surely be on federal character

Eg All military men will surely not become Generals


All Police men will surely not become DIGs

What right do they have to grumble? Most of them appraised their subordinates for promotion or demotion based on ethnic ground.

One part of the country is known for this; gross tribalism.

Meaning

they should revert it back to what it was o
this siddon tight mentality is not helping anyone o

What are they directing sef? Lazy people

Funny! So the mere fact that a decision was circularised explains the rationale behind it and serves as a defence? When these people see that they would be affected, they just do anything with no recourse to fairness, equity and justice. They damn the rest of the country and believe you me, nobody does anything. Nepotism hasn't been this bad in the history of this country. One thing is sure however, who God cannot handle hasn't been created. One day monkey go go market and not come back.

they should please promote them so that we can see space to fill the vacant position..
Assistant Director position vacant for here.

ikorodureporta:
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is he up to 70 years of age the Nigerian politics of today is about being a khaki rtd general or above 70 years of age.

engrjacuzzi:


is he up to 70 years of age the Nigerian politics of today is about being a khaki rtd general or above 70 years of age.

It mustn't be about the age...

Was at Cross River State this xmas and the whole carnival thing was a bomb.... it blew off my mind...


From the renovation/creation of places made me give Duke all due respect...

If Nigerians will stand behind him... this country will experience the transformation that will make this country great!.....


I wish I could write more..not to convince anybody to express all what I experienced in calabar and other L.G.A.s to those who have never been to CRS before....