While Alao-Akala described the development as the beginning of the serial disengagement of civil servants to pave the way for the payment of the minimum wage, the ACN claimed that the step was one of the government’s moves to wipe away the “last traces of profligacy, cronyism and favouritism” that the former governor inflicted on the state.
Alao-Akala, in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, said the mass sacking of the 262 traffic officers last Friday fell within the state policy to reduce the over 30,000 strong workers in the state to the barest minimum.
The statement dismissed as frivolous the excuse of lack of due process in the employment of the traffic officers, saying that the employment exercise went through strict adherence to civil service employment regulation.
The statement reads, “The (employment) exercise began in October last year, with written and oral examination of over 20,000 candidates, out of which only 262 were finally employed in March this year.
“The exercise was conducted at The Polytechnic, Ibadan with Masters, First Degree, HND and School Certificate holders in attendance.”
Alao-Akala said that to have thrown hundreds of able-bodied and qualified young men and women, who earn a paltry N9m per month collectively back into the labour market, was callous.
But the ACN, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Mathew Oyedokun, alleged that Alao-Akala, went shopping for those it called “flotsam and jetsams”, most of whom possessed neither requisite credentials nor experience in previous handling of such an agency.
The party said the Ajimobi government would not, in the name of keeping to “an inept tradition of favouritism” retain those who would drag the administration down to the level that the previous government left the office.
Oyedokun said the Ajimobi government had asked those, who possessed requisite qualifications in the disbanded agency, to re-apply as the Ajimobi government was prepared to reconstitute ORTMA with due consideration for competence, experience and possession of wherewithal to do the job.
“The Ajimobi government, when the new ORTMA is constituted, will show the whole world how an effective, efficient and result-oriented agency like ORTMA could be run,” Oyedokun said.
He said the Ajimobi government was not intent on sacking any worker in the state but would employ more, while stating that it would not pander to “base sentiments of political party, cronies, illicit liaisons and associates” as the Alao-Akala government did in its recruitment exercises.
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