Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, on Tuesday workers got Tuesday, June 16, directed the promotion of 3,650 deserving workers before December.
A statement by his Press Secretary (Print), Mr Fisayo Falodi, said that he also allayed the workers’ palpable fears over rumoured state government’s plan to sack or retrench some of them as salary payment is taking a major toll on the state’s finances.
Besides, he approved the recruitment of 1,000 teachers with B.ED and NCE qualifications. Two hundred vacancies are for candidates with B.ED, while 800 are for those with NCE holders.
The recruitment exercise will start within the next two weeks, as prospective candidates are urged to visit SUBEB portal for further information.
Also, he approved the recruitment of health workers to fill the existing 432 vacancies.
This is to fill the personnel gaps identified in the critical areas of the Primary Health Care sector in the 18 local government areas of the state.
The recruitment exercise, which would be facility-based, would commence in no distant time, as prospective candidates are to visit ODSPHCDA portal in due course.
Representatives of labour unions in the state rose to applaud the state government when the Head of Service, Mr. Dare Aragbaye, told them at a well-attended press briefing at the Cocoa Conference Hall of the Governor’s Office in Akure that all the deserving 3,650 workers would get their financial benefits up to date.
Aragbaye said Akeredolu equally took the administration of pension and gratuity of retirees seriously.
He said: “In his avowed determination to translate his electoral promises to actions, this administration has released the total sum of N6.12 billion for part payment of the backlog of unpaid gratuity inherited in 2017.
“This feat was achieved through monthly release of N200 million to the fund for part payment of gratuity to pensioners. This is in addition to the payment of six months arrears of pension out of the seven months inherited from the immediate past administration in 2017.”
Aragbaye added that the current administration also implemented the 33 percent basic pension increase for pensioners in Ondo State Public Service up till October 2014 along with the N30,000 minimum wage.
With the implementation of the 33 percent basic pension increase, Ondo State took the lead among its sister states in the South-West.
The governor has reduced the number of needed documents for processing pensions from 30 to 14 and eliminated the activities of exploitative syndicate and fraudsters hitherto associated with pension process.
