Senior civil servants fault NIMC claim on fake staff

In a statement issued in Lagos at the weekend by its Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, the union said the alarm raised by the commission in respect of the alleged “fake staff” was a ploy to sack about 1,000 senior staff it had pencilled down for rationalisation.He alleged that for inexplicable reasons, the NIMC management […]

In a statement issued in Lagos at the weekend by its Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, the union said the alarm raised by the commission in respect of the alleged “fake staff” was a ploy to sack about 1,000 senior staff it had pencilled down for rationalisation.
He alleged that for inexplicable reasons, the NIMC management had started a phased retrenchment of many of its staff which had so far led to the weeding out of 5,000 junior workers from the commission.
He said: “After the sacking of about 5,000 junior staff, the NIMC management decided to also retrench 1,000 senior employees who are members of this union.
“It was at that point that the union intervened but since the NIMC management shunned all efforts by the association to resolve the dispute amicably, the association took the matter to the National Industrial Court for adjudication’.’
He recalled that the former Department of National Civic Registration (DNCR) under the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs transformed into the present National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in 2007.
“Initially, the management of the NIMC stated that the senior staff it wants so desperately to dispense with are pool officers who should be returned to the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.”
He said when the NIMC management could not push that position further, it began to campaign that the 1,000 senior employees do not possess requisite skills and competencies and/or have irregularities in their records.