Edo State Governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo has raised the alarm over alleged conversion of political appointees to full time civil servants by the outgoing governor, Godwin Obaseki, six days to the top of his tenure.
DAILY POST experiences that Prince Kassim Afegbua, member, All Progressives Congress, APC, transition committee made the allegation in a press release made out there to newsmen on Wednesday in Benin Metropolis.
Afegbua alleged that the political appointees which are being transformed to full time civil servants are Senior Particular Assistants and Particular Assistants.
He mentioned 186 of such appointees had been appointed by the governor in September 2024, thereby bloating the numbers of aides round him.
He additionally alleged that the outgoing governor has simply commenced the method of absorbing one other 152 aides to compound the issue.
The APC transition committee member, mentioned interview is presently ongoing as a part of the governor’s effort to overburden the incoming administration with enormous recurrent expenditure, when he (Obaseki) was conscious that the state is already bugged down by an enormous debt burden.
“It has come to our discover that Governor Obaseki is presently changing his Senior Particular Assistants (SSA) and Particular Assistants (SA) into full time civil service workers.
“Governor Obaseki, for eight years refused to recruit civil servants to refill vacant positions and energize the civil service.
“He additionally refused to arrange the Civil Service Fee till two weeks in the past, within the twilight of his failed administration.
“We’re alerting the general public to pay attention to Governor Obaseki’s deliberate engagement to stifle the sources of the state and cross on enormous salaries and overhead to the incoming administration.
“This isn’t solely a depraved act however an enormous disservice to the incoming administration of Senator Monday Okpebholo.
“We’ve repeatedly said the place of the incoming administration that anyone who’s wrongly recruited or surreptitiously absorbed into the Civil Service, with backdated appointment letters can be relieved of his or her accountability,” the assertion mentioned.
Afegbua opined that recruitment into Civil Service should not solely observe due course of, there needs to be a necessity for such individuals who’re so recruited.
