Sacked Ogun civil servants petition Amosun

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun

Three civil servants with the Ogun State government have petitioned Governor Ibikunle Amosun over their dismissal from service.

They argued that the termination of their appointments was unjustifiable.

The sacked civil servants, Kazeem Makanjuola, Ayodele Akinbobola and Lawrence Shoniyi claimed that they were employed by the past administration to serve as members of the state musical group known as Choice Band.

The petitioners, said they were employed on December 7, 2007 as indicated in their appointment letters with reference numbers AD.3/275/vol 11/44; AD.3/275/vol11/46 and AD.3/275/vol11/49 respectively, issued to them by the Bureau of Establishment, Office of the Head of Service.

The petitioners  copied the

Nigeria Labour Congress, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Federal Ministry of Labour, Public Complaints Commission, the State Security Service, the Save Nigeria Group and the Ogun State House of Assembly.

“We were employed as assistant executive officer GL 06 then in which ours duty was being discharged as good civil servants without any query or warning letters as citizens of Ogun State,” they stated.

They also claimed that on February 1,2010, they sat for the written promotional examination alongside other civil servants and passed, resulting in their promotion to the next grade as executive officers,GL 07 with effect from  July 1, 2010.

“To our dismay in the month of August 2011, in anticipation of receiving of new minimum wage, we were informed at the bank that our names had been omitted from the government payroll, and that we were not entitled to take any salaries. In addition to this, information from our office revealed that we had been disengaged from the Ogun State Civil Service

“We also want to add that we have neither been warned of any act of indiscipline nor received any query since the day of our appointment in 2007 till date. Our records in the Bureau of Establishment and Training and the Ogun State Council of Arts and Culture speak volumes about this,” they said.

The petitioners appealed to the governor to intervene in the matter.