By December 1, 2024, it is anticipated that over 4,000 Kano civil servant who benefited from term extensions provided by the former governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s administration would have retired. After 35 years of service or attaining 60 years of age, the impacted civil officials were eligible for a tenure extension. The state government has finished its investigation, screening, and data assessment of these individuals.
In addition to the regular regulation, Ganduje extended the term of civil servants by five years, allowing them to hold their positions above the statutory retirement age.
Governor Abba Yusuf took office on May 29, 2023, and he immediately repealed the pension law that permitted tenure extensions and ordered that service years return to the traditional 35 years or 60 years of age.
The state Head of Service, Abdullahi Musa, told reporters on Wednesday that a Senior Civil Servants Committee was set up to ascertain the precise number of people impacted by the pension law’s abrogation.
Following a thorough examination, our committee determined that around 4,000 people are impacted and will likely retire by December 1, 2024. This implies that they will have to turn in their retirement notices by September 30th at the latest,” he stated.
Musa went on to say that the government was ready to fill the positions left by these top officers’ retirement.
Remember that former Governor Ganduje employed 13,000 civil servant at the end of his administration. Governor Yusuf decided not to remove them upon the election of this new administration. Rather, we thoroughly interviewed and hired 10,000 of the 13,000 federal servants on a permanent and pensionable basis after screening the other 3,000. Members of the National Youth Service Corps, undergraduate students enrolled in school, people underage (those under 13), and people overage were among those sacked, according to Musa.
He went on to say that truancy problems among civil servant had been resolved, and that employees were now expected to report back to work by eight in the morning.
