How Ganduje Employed Secondary School Students, Others With Forged Certificates Into Civil Service
The Kano State government has accused the immediate past administration of Abdullahi Ganduje of employing unqualified persons including those who forged their certificates and academic results into the state civil service.
Recall that the Governor Abba Yusuf-led government shortly after his inauguration in May directed the suspension of the salaries of some civil servants in the state.
This led to the establishment of a committee to screen and verify employments conducted by the immediate past administration.
Giving an update on the situation on Friday, Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), said the committee discovered that the previous government engaged in mass hiring without adhering to necessary norms and service regulations.
He also stated that the committee recommended the firing of nearly 3,000 unqualified individuals.
He said, “The verification committee report was received by the Government and its salient observations and recommendations were noted and accepted. The majority of the employment was not captured in the 2023 Approved Budget and a significant percentage of those employed had neither applied nor indicated interest to serve which form a major aspect of employment requirement.
“Most of those employed did not undergo processes of screening and recruitment interviews as expected by the service regulations; employed were found to have suspicious or forged certificates, while many non-indigenes were employed in spite of a large number of qualified unemployed indigenes roaming.
“The employment did not take into consideration the actual manpower needs of the respective MDAs but was influenced by the desire to tie down the new Administration financially; our streets and those employed were wrongly placed through deployment to non-career posts or the calling of their respective qualifications.
“There was gross underemployment where officers with higher qualifications attracting senior cadres were employed on the junior cadre of the service contrary to the needs of the MDAs and approval granted for such employment.
“A number of students in their active study years were also found to be employed, including students of junior secondary schools, senior secondary schools and some in their early stages of tertiary education; a number of persons recruited were found to be undergoing their National Service Program (NYSC) while a number of people confirmed to be overage or under-aged were found to be employed and on the State payroll,” Bichi said.
