Drama As Aggrieved Workers Eject PSC Directors From Office, Ask Musiliu Smith To Step Down

“The permanent secretary read the management decision to us but there was no timeline to the promises. We suspected it was a ploy to get us off their backs.”

The labour leader narrated that the commission’s management was pressuring the workers to go for their Basic Travel Allowance approved for the field monitoring of the recruitment, noting that the workers were rather interested in working for whatever they were paid.

He noted, “After the chairman traveled, the police were going ahead with the recruitment which we suspected was of his making because it was just after we had our agitation that the police timetable was released and there was no preparation in the commission; they were telling us that we should collect our BTA.

“The police were always involved in the exercise but it is always driven by the commission because it is our mandate but why they want to exclude the commission is a secret between the police and the chairman.

“The management promised to conclude the promotion examination but it has not been done. Last year, the exercise dragged on for so long and was not concluded due to vested political interests.”

When contacted, the spokesman of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani, told Daily Trust that he was out of Abuja, and as such he was unaware of the development.

“Sorry, I am not in town, in the East for the Sensitization programme of the Commission,” he told our correspondent via a text message.

Daily Trust