By Wilson Adekumola
The Osun State Government have told the civil servants that bank statements of account and Bank Verification Number, requested for in the ongoing staff audit exercise in the state are no longer necessary.
The acting Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress , Osun State Council, Modupe Oyedele, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Osogbo on Monday.
Oyedele said workers should no longer bother themselves with going to get their bank statements from banks.
“The two documents are no longer necessary for the staff audit, which has commenced at the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Abeere.
“Workers are to disregard sections of the circular, which requested details of bank statements, BVN, and Primary 6 certificates
“Workers should not see the exercise as a witch-hunt, but a move by the government to make the civil service better and to identify vacant spaces within the system for possible replacement,” she concluded.
Reports had revealed how Osun civil servants were lamenting the insistence by the state government for the workers to produce a record of their bank statements and pension statements.
This is after the state government maintained that the exercise was not a witch-hunt but one aimed at repositioning the state civil service.
Also, the academic and non-academic unions of the state-owned tertiary institutions had called on the state government to decentralise the exercise or be ready for a showdown.
They said this after they alleged that the consultant engaged by the state government was not competent.
