Senate Directs PTAD To Re-instate Sacked Directors

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has been issued a directive by the Nigerian Senate to reinstate five directors that were sacked last year, whose appointments were deemed to have breached the Nigerian Public Service Rule.

The Senate directive was for the sacked directors to be reinstated as contract staff as such appointments would not go against the rule of the Civil Service.

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The Head of Service of the Federation conducted a staff audit last year on the request of Executive Secretary of PTAD, Sharon Ikeazor.

During the course of the audit, it was discovered that the engagement of the directors by the former Executive Secretary of PTAD Mrs Nellie Mayshak, ran contrary to a provision of the civil service rule which states that a person above the age of 50 years cannot be engaged into a regular civil service. PTAD sacked all directors upon the findings that their appointment was in breach of the rule.

The directors that were sacked are;
Godson Ukpevo of the Civil Service Pension Department,
Uloma Uruakpa of Customs, Immigration and Prison’s Department,
Taiwo Ogundipe in charge of Parastatal Department,
Atiku Dambatta of Police Pension Department and
Roz Ben-okagbu of Pension Support Service Department.

The Nigerian Senate committee held a hearing on a petition received from Mr Atiku Saleh Saleh and three others affected by the sack in a its sitting on January 23, 2018 and resolved that the sacked directors be re-engaged “In view of the fact that the nation is battling to have its citizens actively engaged in gainful employment.”

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