Ogun Clears Air on Employment Advert Ogun State Government has explained that the advertisement placed by its Civil Service Commission in which applicants were requested to pay examination fees had been grossly misunderstood by those criticizing the policy. In a statement by the Commission’s Chairman, Chief (Mrs) Ronke Folarin, the government stated that the application fee was a regular requirement which had been part of the procedure for recruiting university graduates into the professional cadres in the public service since the inception of the state. “The prescribed fee in the advertisement is examination fee and a sundry, as the examination is being handled by the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Badagry. The examination is meant for university graduates aspiring to join the professional officer cadre of the Civil Service and it is done to set the standard for new entrants. The present examination is a special one as it is being done outside the normal period of January, hence the seemingly extra cost’’, Folarin stated. While insisting that the examination fee has nothing to do with generation of funds, she said the payment of fees for the ASCON examination was not peculiar to Ogun State and neither is it new. She noted that over the past 30 years, graduates who want to join the professional cadre of the service have had to pay for the examination while officers in the service, who plan to convert to the professional cadre, also need to pay and sit for the examination. She said the payment for ASCON examination is the normal practice in the Civil Service in most states of the federation and that the difference in the exercise is that Ogun State has been advertising the process in the last two years now, a measure taken to ensure transparency and making the opportunity available to all and sundry. She added that the recruitment process was a rigorous one and is in four stages, including written examination to be conducted by ASCON, which will hold for two days, a written test to be conducted by the commission, four-day interview to be held by consultants, and the final interview to be held by the commission. “The administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun has employed over 15,000 people into the Civil Service. The form for the Rapid Employment Generation Programme, through which applicants came in, was distributed free. The government cannot be a party to exploitation of the citizenry as is being portrayed in some reports on this issue,” Folarin added.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:31:43 +0000
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