The National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) has scheduled a comprehensive audit of staff members of the National Assembly for the first quarter of 2022 to clean up the system.
Sources in the Commission said the audit was informed by the widespread abuse of service rules and regulations in the engagement and promotion of staff members, especially top management cadre of the National Assembly.
One of the alleged infractions of the service rules and regulations is the issue of skewed promotion processes that had resulted in improper placements into some top management positions by the National Assembly.
A source described improper placements as criminal, divisive and discouraging. According to him, the NASC should review all cases of improper placements of staff members with a view to rescinding them and returning beneficiaries of the questionable process to their proper ranks.
He said that in order to progress through the ranks to the top, staff members should be made to write the requisite promotion examinations that hold evry three to four years.
According to him, “Members of the public should read up the provisions of the Service Rules to properly understand the facts contained therein. This is not just crying wolf where none exists. There has been a deliberate and progressive manipulation of the system to achieve some retrogressive self-serving agenda.
“It is about time the National Assembly Service Commission looked into this and the feelers emanating from the Commission of its plan to embark on staff members’ audit are quite cheering. We keep our fingers crossed to see what far-reaching implications the audit will have for the National Assembly management and staff members.”
A top management staff member suggested that issues like eligibility or requisite certifications for certain technical and administrative positions should form part of the audit.
He also faulted the process that threw up the incumbent Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Architect Ojo Amos Olatunde, whom he claimed jumped from level 15 to level 17 without any records of having participated in any promotion examinations.
The NASC, according to sources, would embark on a comprehensive audit and review of all anomalies in “promotions and placements” of staff members especially in the last five years.
A source who interacted with our correspondent said there were also situations where some staff members in the office of the CNA, who were on levels 10,12 and 13, had enjoyed accelerated promotion to the next rank or level without sitting for any promotion examinations.
This, as learnt, has demoralized a vast majority of the National Assembly staff members, leading to a development, which a staff member said had “greatly eroded commitment to service and affected work rate, input and output.”
As the NASC gets set for the audit exercise, investigations by our correspondent showed that a vast majority of the National Assembly staff members, especially those in the top management cadre, are apprehensive about the likely outcome of the exercise.
It was learnt that those who falsified their official documents and/or service records have been running from pillar to post to see how to make good their records.
A source said it remained to be seen how those whose hands had been enmeshed in the cookie jar would extricate themselves in the face of a boisterous upcoming staff audit by the NASC leadership, under the Chair of Engineer Ahmed Kadi Amshi, that is determined to clean the Augean stable and reposition the National Assembly management for better performance.
(Source: trojan.com.ng)
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