Mass retirement looms in Kano civil service as no fewer than 4,000 personnel are set to exit by year end.
The Kano state Head of Civil service, Alhaji Abdullahi Musa who hosted newsmen in his office on Wednesday explained that the turn of event tallies with the 3 month retirement notice by the affected staff .
Alhaji Abdullahi Musa revealed that most of the affected personnel had hitherto leverage on tenure elongation by the immediate past administration before it was abrogated by the new pension laws in the state to hang on .
Alhaji Musa stated that the new pension law that has been signed into law provided a window for such staff to hang on for additional 7 months, adding that by 31st December they would bowed out of the service.
The Head of service “Following the signing into law of a new pension law, all such categories of staff that leverage on were given 3 months notice to retire from the service.”
He said the vacuum created by the mass exit would be replenished with existing 10,000 workforce recruited into the service by the Ganduje’s administration at the twilight of his tenure.
He stressed “We have our transition plan to remedy the exigencies through the application of civil service dynamism as applicable to promotion of qualified staff to the next level.”
He disclosed that Kano civil service currently boast of 60,000 staff, while the overall size of local government workerforce currently stood at 100,000.
