Bauchi To Recruit 5,669 Into Civil Service

Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, on Friday, said that the state government would initially engage the services of 5,669 workers out of the 10,000 earlier promised with the rest to be employed in the next year.

Speaking during a stakeholders engagement which included Commissioners, local government chairmen, party leaders, Head of Service, heads of agencies and MDAs, among others, the governor said the meeting was to ensure inclusiveness, fairness, justice, and broader participation.

The governor stated, “The advert has generated a lot of interest and so I don’t know how to navigate this. I must seek for your resourcefulness, I must get your contributions so that together we can do it.

“There must be justice and equity, not just to allocate everything for political expediency or the so-called people on the high table can share the vacancies or the Head of Service or any civil servant to use it as has always been the suspicion, I say suspicion because it has not been proved.

“So we are here to look at all the vacancies, the availability, the local governments and of course what to do to ensure justice and equity, and to ensure these four components of stakeholders, so that at the end of the day, nobody would be cheated,” he said.

Governor Bala observed that there are applicants who were educated and very intelligent that have graduated from various institutions of learning, but were not opportuned to reach out to any Commissioner or Governor himself.

He further said, “The Head of Service has come up template and has given us a gist of the employment of 10,000 so far, and the portal was opened by our BICT and so many people have applied, there are 214 jobs with 5,669 vacancies that are available in 18 MDAs and all the people from 20 local government areas applied.”

He assured that the meeting was to produce a transparent, just, and equitable recruitment framework that would stand the test of time

“At the moment, Head of Service said we are going to get only 5,669 vacancies as a start, and we have promised 10,000. Next year we will do the rest, we have conducted the financial analysis,” Governor Mohammed added.

He appreciated the Head of Service for the work done so far, stressing that the meeting was to examine the vacancies, understand the distribution across local government areas, and agree on the guidelines that will ensure fairness.

Earlier, the Secretary to the State Government, Hon. Aminu Hammayo, commended the governor for his belief in the stakeholders and inclusiveness in governance.