Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State said he asked the
immediate past Head of Service of the State, Mr. Jerry Obazele, to proceed on
compulsory retirement over gross negligence tending towards fraud.
Speaking during the swearing-in of the New Head of
Service of the State, Mrs Gladys Osaretin Idahor at the Government House, Benin
City, Tuesday, Oshiomhole said “I am a defender of jobs. I believe experience
is a value to be celebrated, not to be punished. But I have had to arrive at
the painful conclusion that Obazele had to be relieved of his services because
not only did he fail to provide leadership, he also conducted himself in a way
that would have led me to approve of a fraudulent claim for pensioners.
“He was appointed according to my judgment and I accept
responsibility for my poor sense of judgment but I also have the courage to
correct my mistakes once I discovered it was a mistake.
“The responsibility of a Head of Service is to be a
superintendent over the Civil service. There are many of our senior citizens
who had retired from service from as far back as 1999, some even under the
military and by the time I assumed office, many of these senior citizens had
not received their gratuity for over a period of 12, 13 years. The situation
was compounded by the thousands of workers that were retrenched by a former PDP
government between 2000 and 2001 and all of those people were not paid their
gratuity.
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