The Taraba State Civil Service Commission has disclosed that an estimated 3,000 civil servants have left the service of the state government on retirement, creating a gap in the state workforce for efficient and effective service delivery.
Chairman of the State Civil Service Commission, Hon. Phillip Kundila, who disclosed this in an interview with LEADERSHIP in Jalingo, said the Commission was proposing a massive recruitment to government to bridge the gap in the state workforce.
The CSC chairman, who expressed worry over the development, said the Commission has begun profiling vacancies from all the Ministries, Developments and Agencies (MDAs) to ascertain the number of those needed when the time comes.
“Very shortly, we are going to take stock of all the MDAs, so that we can tell the government exactly what number is needed for employment to make up for the people that have left or are leaving.
“Even though, the governor has not asked us to do so, but we are going to get it ready so that when the times comes, we will be handy with our proposal,” Kundila said.
While commending Governor Agbu Kefas for impacting positively on the lives of civil servants, through increase in their salaries, the commission chairman said, “there are so many people, roughly around 3,000 or so have already left according to our records.
“And so, those vacancies are there, and so far we have not started employment anywhere. All these vacancies are there yearning to be filled.
“Now, he (Governor Kefas) is thinking of employing. We are working with the various MDAs in the state to ensure those that are going out of the service are replaced.
“And this government is making a very great effort to see that new employment is done, to see that things move very well, ” he said.
Kundila also appealed to the state government for a befitting office accommodation, saying the environment under which they were operating needed total overhaul to enable the staff put in their best in service.
“This place was built around 1991 or so, there has been no retouch again in terms of renovation, except for the office of the chairman, which got little renovation, but other offices are nothing,” he said.
He expressed optimism that Governor Kefas, whose reforms were already changing the narrative in the civil service would remedy the situation in the Commission.
