President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that civil servants who relocated abroad while drawing salaries without formally resigning must refund the wages they received during the period.
Tinubu spoke at the 2024 Civil Service Award and Gala Night,
the climax of the week-long 2024 Civil Service Week, held at the Abuja
Continental Hotel.
During the media parley to mark the 2024 civil service week,
the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation shared the revelation regarding
employees who had relocated abroad while drawing salaries without formally
resigning.
She, however, said that measures have been taken to address
this issue.
Speaking on Saturday, Tinubu insisted that “we must ensure
those responsible are held accountable and restitution is made.”
“The culprits must be made to refund the money they have
fraudulently collected. Their supervisors and department heads must also be
punished for aiding and abetting the fraud under their watch,” the President
said.
He noted that the Civil Service cannot just be a workplace
where ‘anything is possible, ‘where workers violate rules without the fear of
punishment or repercussions.
“The civil service of any nation is too important for such
misconduct to take root or be tolerated.
“The Civil Service is the bedrock, the engine, the
locomotive of government, which is necessary for the government to deliver
public goods to citizens. As politicians, we are no more than drivers of the
locomotives that you provide,” he added.
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