The Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has constituted a
five-man Administrative Panel of Enquiry to look into an alleged
irregular mass recruitment in the State Teaching Service Commission
(STSC).
This followed the discovery of 516 illegal workers in the STSC.
The
state commissioner for Education, Human Capital Development, Engr Musa
Yeketi, who disclosed this yesterday, said the workers had been
defrauding the government since 2014.
Yeketi said Governor Ahmed
approved the recruitment of 449 workers in 2014 and 2015 for the
commission, which included 249 teaching staff and 150 security guards.
A
statement by the secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Gold
said the discovery of the irregular recruitment was part of the
immediate outcome of the just concluded staff verification exercise in
the state.
Gold explained that the said recruitment was conducted outside the
laid down procedures for recruitment into the service which provides for
a systematic staff replacement process.
This, he said was based
on need assessment and funded from accrued savings from retiring staff
at no extra cost to the government.
According to the SSG, the
terms of reference of the panel, amongst others include: to examine the
personnel profile of the Teaching Service Commission prior to year 2014;
determine the adequacy or otherwise of the personnel profile of the
commission and examine what informed the alleged unauthorized
recruitment of 2014 and those behind it.
It will also identify the
total number of those illegally recruited, their current duty posts,
grade level and remuneration; identify the total financial loss incurred
as a result of the exercise and the possibility of recouping same.