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DELTA STATE SACKS OVER 200 CIVIL SERVANTS FOR DOCUMENT FALSIFICATION
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CapitalTimesNews / 7 months
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The Delta State Government has dismissed over 200 civil servants for document falsification and forgery, following an intense staff audit by the State Civil Service Commission (SCSC). Those affected allegedly altered their age documentation or presented fake and altered academic certificates. According to the Chairman of the SCSC, Chief Roseline Amioku, the sackings were with immediate effect and aimed at restoring the integrity of the commission. “A lot of people are blowing whistle to us. We decided to act swiftly by investigating and looking at the files of civil servants,” she said. The audit, which is ongoing, has revealed shocking findings, including hundreds of civil servants who should have retired five years ago but remained in service by fraudulently altering their age declaration documents. “Many of them reduced their age to the extent that their own children are now senior to them,” Amioku lamented. “We have retired over two hundred civil servants over age falsification already. And we have just started. We have not done fifty per cent of the exercise which is going to continue till next year,” she added. The SCSC chairman assured that the exercise would continue until all segments of the service have been covered. Amioku also called on Deltans to disregard speculations that the government was forcefully retiring civil servants to cut the wage bill, saying that the majority of those still working in the public service are above working age. “We are screening the entire workforce of Delta State,” she emphasized.