No fewer than 4,000 public servants, the majority in the directorate cadre of Kano State civil service, have been directed to proceed on compulsory retirement.
The decision follows the abolition of the 5-year service elongation policy introduced by the immediate past administration into the civil service.
Dr Abdullah Umar Ganduje’s administration had obstructed the standard rule of 35 years of service and/or 60 years of age for workers’ retirement by adding 5 years for anyone who wished to remain in office after the expiration of time.
The Ganduje administration was said to have broken the civil service retirement rule to ease the cumulative burden of gratuity to the increasing number of fresh retirees that the government found difficult to settle. However, the policy remained a stumbling block for the government to create employment opportunities.
Briefing journalists on Wednesday, the state…
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