Oyo State government has disclosed that it will offset the promotion arrears of its workforce that have stagnated for four years, saying there will be no more disparity in elevation of workers in the State.
The Chairman of Oyo State Civil Service Commission stated this over the weekend while speaking with reporters on the preparation for the training exercise for Directors of Administration, Directors of Personnel and Directors of Finance in the State Civil Service towards conducting a hitch-free promotion exercise for the workers.
Aderibigbe hinted that the decision of the State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, to offset the arrears of promotion was in conformity with the administration’s welfarist policy and the realisation that the workers have laboured for the said period without being elevated as stated in the civil service code.
The Chairman added that Governor Makinde has directed that there should be no case of any worker being owed promotion by the end of his first term, which necessitated the drive towards offsetting the inherited promotion arrears.
“For the 35 years I have spent in Civil Service, I have never seen a governor that has been so magnanimous as Governor Seyi Makinde, conducting four years promotion at a go is not an easy thing, he has sacrificed so much for the civil and public servants, because they form the bulk of the economy of the State,” he said.
“After this exercise, there won’t be arrears of promotion any longer, you know we are going to be due for 2017 to 2020, and by the end of this year, all MDAs must have gotten their data corrected so that as early as 2022 we will be doing the 2021 promotion, so this government is working on not leaving any arrears of promotion at the expiration of its first four years in office so that when the governor comes in for the second term, it will be a smooth ride for the workers in terms of their elevation at work.”