The Senate has moved a step further towards criminalising employment by Ministries, department and Agencies (MDAs) into federal government offices without first advertising the vacancies.
The bill for an Act seeking to make such federal employments an offence passed for second reading yesterday
The Bill also seeks to promote integrity and transparency in the recruitment of personnel into the federal civil service by making it an offence for a federal ministry, agency or parastatal to fill existing vacancies in their organisations if such vacancies have not been published.
If the Bill is passed into law, it becomes an offence for heads of MDAs who violate the provisions punishable on conviction with a fine of N3 million or 2-year jail term or both.
This followed a motion moved by Senator Abiodun Olujimi (Ekiti South) for a Bill titled ‘A Bill for an Act to make it an offence for vacant positions in the Federal Civil Service to be filled without their being advertised and for other matters connected therewith, 2017.’
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Senate set to criminalise employment of federal civil servants without advertising vacancy
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