Group Frowns Reshuffle, Posting Of Permanent Secretaries In Federal Civil Service
* Urge Head Of Service To Shield Such Plan
By Khalid Idris
A Civil Society Organisation, Nigerian Watch Front Group has frowned at the purported plan of the Head of the Federal Civil Service to redeploy Permanent Secretaries in the country urging her to as a matter of urgency, shield such plan.
The group in a press release issued its national coordinator, Mr Abubakar Gazali Yaro and made available to journalists in Bauchi on Tuesday.
The group considers this reshuffling as an attempt to divert and shield corrupt practices in ministries, departments and agencies of Government.
The statement said, “The attention of Nigerian Watch Front Group has been drawn to a purported plan by the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Folasade Yemi-Esan to redeploy and reshuffle Permanent Secretaries not in her pay grade at this late hour of transition.”
It added that, “While we frown at such motive in totality, it is important to bring to the fore of the general public, that the bane behind Head of Service’s plan is to redeploy some hard working Permanent Secretaries and replace them with her core loyalists ahead of the swearing
Lin ceremony of the new government.”
According to the CSO, “In recent times, we were aware that, she promoted some of her favorite Directors to the position of Permanent Secretaries despite the fact that they failed to pass the examination and requirements but she finds her way to miss lead President Muhammadu Buhari to administer them oath of office.”
Abubakar Gazali Yarọ stated that, “As civil society organization whose main aims are geared towards advocating for better service delivery to the general population of Nigeria, we are constraint to demand that the Head of Service of the federation should drop and bury such self motivated thought and stop frustrating the transition process through her unpatriotic moves.”
The organisation concluded that, “We hope that you will resist any attempts to frustrate this transition period.”