CIVIL SERVANTS: Refund Salaries You Collect Before You JAPA, Otherwise…… – Tinubu Vows.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Nigeria President, has publicly stated that civil servants who relocate to abroad while drawing salaries without formally resign must refund the wages they received during the period
According to information, the President addressed the civil servant at the 2024 Civil Service Award and Gala Night, the climax of the week-long 2024 Civil Service Week, held at the Abuja Continental Hotel.
It was gathered that the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, during the media parley to mark the 2024 civil service week, shared the revelation regarding employees who had relocated abroad while drawing salaries without formally resigning.
However, She said that measures have been taken to address this issue.
While speaking on Saturday, Tinubu insisted that “we must ensure those responsible are held accountable and restitution is made.”
“The culprits must be made to refund the money they have fraudulently collected. Their supervisors and department heads must also be punished for aiding and abetting the fraud under their watch,” the President said.
According to him, the Civil Service cannot just be a workplace where ‘anything is possible, ‘where workers violate rules without the fear of punishment or repercussions.
“The civil service of any nation is too important for such misconduct to take root or be tolerated”.
“The Civil Service is the bedrock, the engine, the locomotive of government, which is necessary for the government to deliver public goods to citizens. As politicians, we are no more than drivers of the locomotives that you provide,” he added.
