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Retirement spree has hit the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service.
Seven serving Assistant Controller Generals (ACGs) who took part in the screening and examination as candidates that later produced the current Controller General were reportedly sacked by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
The officers who were summoned from various stations outside Abuja to the National Headquarters of the service purportedly for a meeting with the newly-appointed Controller General, Haliru Nababa were shocked when they were handed letters of voluntary retirement with effect from 9 June 2021.
The retirement letter signed by one Mrs Aisha A. Rufai of CDCFIB, and sighted by PRNigeria reads: “In view of the convention on seniority in the military and paramilitary services in respect to the newly appointed Controller-General, and in addition to other antecedents, you are hereby advised to proceed on voluntary retirement from the service with effect from 9th June 2021.”
A source said they were tricked to meet the new CG in his office one by one.
“As they were ushered into CG’s office one after the other like schoolchildren awaiting punishments, they were given letters of premature retirement because all of them have upwards of two years to spend before their retirement ages.
None of the retired officers was senior to the new CG which is evident in the staff nominal rolls. For instance, there are three DCGs who were promoted with effect from 1st January 2019 and 2020, and by that are senior to the CGC whose date of appointment is April 2021.
Maxilensnews gathered that the affected officers who berated the minister’s decision are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senate President and Honorable Speaker of House of Representatives to look into the matter and redress the anomaly in the interest of equity, justice and fairness.
