By Lawal Gwanda
The Katsina State Committee set up to undertake manpower audit and verification exercise has swung into action through an interactive session with Directors of Administration and supplies now holding in brief as heads of Ministries Departments and Agencies,MDAs in the state.
The Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Rabi’u Abdu Rumah held a session to brainstorm with the Directors at the conference Hall of Dr Garba Ja Abdulkadir state Secretariat complex, Katsina.
Alhaji Rabi’u Rumah informed the Directors that the present manpower audit differs from the previous exercises carried out by successive administrations from 1999 to date.
He spelt out the termsof reference of the committee as directed by the state government, stressing that there was need for Directors to accord maximum cooperation to the committee to achieve it’s mandate.
Alhaji Rabi’u Rumah warned the Directors against allowing some of their staff to be missed out in the man power audit and verification exercise as that was not the intended purpose.
He said June Salary has been given to the committee as baseline for the audit and verification of civil servants in the state.
Alhaji Rabi’u Rumah reminded the Directors that the committee was not set up by Governor Dikko Radda to whitchhunt any civil servant but to correct anomalies within the service, saying that the governor frowned at situations where a grade level 12 officer will be appointed to head an agency of government with civil servants on grade level sixteen as unit heads.
Such situations, according to the chairman demotivates civil servants thereby bringing productivity to it’s lowest level.
Rumah announced that data obtaining forms have been carefully crafted to check facts of bio-data of the civil servants that would provide far reaching recommendations to the present administration to make amends in the service.
Rabi’u Rumah informed the directors that issues bordering on credentials must be properly stated by civil servants, stressing that a civil servant with BEd has no business being employed in other Ministries than that of Education and vice versa.
He said in compliance to the circular issued by the State Ministry of Budget & Economic Planning, henceforth domiciliation of an employee salary is to be based on his current place of posting”
He later directed for the Bio-data forms to be distributed to the Directors of Administration and supplies in the Ministries Departments and Agencies, MDAs, adding that the screening process will commence on Monday, July 10, in the conference Hall of Dr Garba Ja Abdulkadir state Secretariat complex, Katsina.
