More Recruitment Coming Into Osun Civil Service

 

• OYES, Amotekun May Follow, After Teachers Enrolment

• PDP Kicks, Vow To Revisit Oyetola’s Actions After July 16 Poll

Kazeem Badmus

THERE are indications that Governor Adegboyega Oyetola will embark on more recruitment into the State Civil Service before his administration winds down on November 26, 2022. 

OSUN DEFENDER reliably gathered that the Oyetola’s administration has concluded plan to recruit more youths into the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) and more personnel into Osun Security Network Agency, codenamed Amotekun. 

Findings revealed that Oyetola might also confirm the appointment of some workers in the state-owned tertiary institution ahead of November 26. 

It would be recalled that the Oyetola’s administration had on May 6, 2022 announced recruitment process for the Batch 5 of OYES, a development considered to be a political move for election purpose. 

Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Yemi Lawal, who made the announcement stated that the Oyetola administration would recruit 30,000 people into the OYES.

The OYES applicants were asked to come for screening at their various local governments some days to the July 16 governorship election. 

However, the government has remained silent on the OYES recruitment after Oyetola was defeated at the poll. 

When contacted yesterday, Lawal, the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, said there was no update on the OYES recruitment. 

Lawal said: “There is no update on the OYES recruitment for now. If the government is going to do anything on it, the general public will know; for now, there is no update.”

But OSUN DEFENDER reliably gathered that the OYES recruitment would come any moment from now.

Besides, the Oyetola administration has also concluded plan to recruit more operatives into Osun Security Network Agency, known as Amotekun, according to sources. 

The Amotekun Commander, Brigadier General Bashir Adewimbi (rtd.), in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Ede, on August 27, 2022, said more operatives would be recruited to strengthen security.

Adewimbi disclosed that the “governor has approved the recruitment of more operatives who are competent and courageous to fight insecurity.” 

The OYES and Amotekun recruitments are expected to follow the employment of additional 1500 teachers into the state teaching service. 

It would be recalled that the state government had on Monday announced the recruitment of 1500 additional teachers “to further bridge the teacher/pupil ratio in the state”, as stated by the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemode.

The government had last year December announced recruitment of 1000 teachers.

We’ll Revisit All Action Taken By Oyetola After July 16 – PDP

The Monday teachers’ recruitment generated controversies as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Transition Committee of the Governor-Elect, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, condemned the exercise on the ground that it was done in bad faith by the outgoing Governor. 

Reacting to the recruitment, the PDP said it would revisit all the actions taken by Oyetola after his defeat at the governorship poll, saying it would not stamp any act of illegality.

The party’s Director of Media, Mr Oladele Bamiji, in an interview with OSUN DEFENDER yesterday, said recruitment into the public service should not be for satisfying political ego. 

According to him, the PDP would look into the process that led to the recruitment of the teachers with a view to bring out any irregularity when it takes over the government of the state in November. 

He said: “It is a straightforward thing. There are laid down rules and regulations that guide such appointment or recruitment into the public workforce like teaching and other categories of the State Civil Service. 

“Our government will definitely not reinforce illegality. We cannot say because someone wants to hide under the emotional need of the people, the person should now begin to do things without following the laid down rules governing such exercise.

“We are going to look into the process that leads to those recruitment and whichever that is against the rules of engagement, we will not stamp it. It is as simple as that.

“We know that the teaching service especially needs more hands to enhance and improve dying fortune of our education, but we can also not afford to pack the teaching service with some untruthful average hands that are likely to be among those who are being recruited.

“If we want to do something, it should not be to satisfy our political ego but to improve the system. Whatever the current government does that is not in tandem with the vision of the incoming administration in the bid to improve the fortune of this State generally, such things will not stand. 

“We are going to look into it and other steps they have taken after the July 16 governorship election that might not align with the vision of the incoming administration.