The
Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate has sacked five directors over
employment irregularities and redeployed some staff back to the office of the
Accountant General of the Federation.
Daily
Trust gathered that the development followed a staff audit authorised by the
Head of Service of the Federation upon the request of the Executive Secretary
of the Directorate, Barr. Sharon Ikeazor.
A
source not authorised to speak on the exercise told Daily Trust that what
brought about the staff audit was that upon assumption of office as the head of
the directorate, Ikeazor was inundated with requests from staff for the
confirmation of their appointments.
The
report uncovered irregularities in the appointment of the directors by the
former ES, Mrs. Nellie Mayshak.
The
directors sacked are Godson Ukpevo of the Civil Service Pension Department;
Uloma Uruakpa of Custom, Immigration and Prison’s Department; Taiwo Ogundipe in
charge of Parastatal Department; Atiku Dambatta of Police Pension Department
and Roz Ben-Okagbue of Pension Support Services Department.
The
source revealed that more irregularities were found in the employment of some
staff and the management would act on the recommendations of the report soon.
“The
directors were sacked because their appointments were done in error. The Head
of Service of the Federation sent a team which talked to all the staff and
examined their credentials and offer of appointments. The report of that team
was submitted to the Minister of Finance who then directed the ES to implement
the report,” the source said.
Daily
Trust learnt that the report confirmed that the affected directors were
employed in error since they were beyond 50 years of age at the time of employment
against a public service rule that says you cannot appoint a 50-year-old and
above into a regular civil service appointment.
The
staff that were redeployed to the Office of the AGF exceeded the duration of
their secondment and had to be forced to return so that new people could join
PTAD.
“The
management is concerned that the directorate deals with money and no one should
be there for a long time. The management decided that they should go and allow
others come in. We received new ones. They have already reported,” the source
said.
Efforts
made to receive a response on this development from the PTAD failed as the
phone number of the directorate’s spokesperson, Mrs. Theodora Amaechi, was not
reachable as at the time of filing this report.
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