Information reaching us at Greenbarge Reporters online newspaper has shown that the Federal Capital Territory Civil Service Commission has abruptly disengaged 230 civil servants in the service of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) for alleged abscondment.
Sources said that over 85 percent of those that have been disengaged are senior medical personnel in the Health Management Board, serving in various hospitals and health facilities across the capital city.
It was learnt that the disengaged civil servants have not received letters showing their new status and that their April salaries were abruptly stopped even before they got the news of their disengagement, only from social media platforms, where their names were listed.
Some of those affected told our reporter that they could not believe that the civil service commission, with highly educated people would dabble into such a joke of the year.
They said that the issue of abscondment by 230 civil servants is a coinage that would not fly, adding that they have been regularly attending their duties at work and have never received even a single letter of query or verbal query from either their immediate bosses or the civil service commission itself.
“I don’t believe the civil service commission would play such a serious ignorant game against the known civil service rules in Nigeria,” one of them said.
“I still believe that this is one of the fake news items coming from some lazy young people who just woke up from sleep this morning,” another civil servant who was affected quipped.
Meanwhile, the leadership of some unions had asked their members who have been affected to remain calm.
One of them sent an urgent message to members with the following words: “Good morning my Dear comrades.
“It has come to our notice that the civil service commission just decided to disengage the following staff (list attached) from service without any reason.
“We call on all affected members to remain calm. We will follow up the matter and get back to you before the end of the day .Thank you.”
