Penalty for sexual harassment in Ondo Civil Service is dismissal – HoS

The Head of Service ( HoS) successful Ondo State, Mr Bayo Philip, says the caller extant rules guiding the nationalist work successful the authorities person dismissal and transgression prosecution for offence of intersexual harassment successful the service.

Philip stated this connected Thursday successful Akure during the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Retired Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries of the South-West.

He said that the authorities had reviewed its civilian work rules and policies successful bid to conscionable up with expectations of the public.

According to him, the reviewed civilian work has accrued maternity permission from 3 months to six months portion determination is proviso for paternity permission of 2 weeks.

The HoS said that the service, with its caller mantra: “don’t present abbreviated and don’t present late”, was aimed to align with the 21st Century of the nationalist work with greater output.

Philip, who said that the state, which has 42,000 unit spot with 13,000 pensioners, had nary arrears of unit promotion.

Also speaking, the authorities Chairman of the association, Mrs Mojisola Ajayi, appealed to each South-West governors to rejig the civilian work by eliminating dysfunctionality and restoring ratio to conscionable the people’s needs.

Ajayi added that determination indispensable beryllium pension strategy betterment that would marque the payment of pensioners to beryllium urgently addressed, stating that galore retirees struggled with economical hardship.

According to her, the South-West governors should replicate the occurrence recorded successful constitution of the South-West Security Network Agency, codenamed Amotekun Corps, successful each sectors of their respective states.

Ajayi commended Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa for his compassionate and visionary leadership, peculiarly successful prioritising the payment of pensioners and for his strides successful each sectors.

In the aforesaid vein, the South-West President, Dr Ebenezer Okebukola, said that the relation had presented the blueprint connected the projected program of enactment for the economical improvement of the South-West Nigeria to the region’s governors.

Okebukola, who appreciated the governors for identifying with the project, commended the fiscal motion of Aiyedatiwa to the relation and asked different governors successful the portion to enactment the relation to bash more.

He besides thanked each authorities governments successful the portion for their circumstantial laudable projects successful their respective states.

In his speech, Aiyedatiwa described the associated arsenic noble and credible, saying that it had made immense important contributions to the upliftment and improvement successful the South-West.

Aiyedatiwa, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Mr Segun Omojuwa, said that his medication had made policies to guarantee the champion could beryllium achieved by civilian servants.

“Your members person undoubtedly played cardinal roles successful shaping authorities policies and programmes.

“ You person regularly agreed with assorted authorities governors, offering your wealthiness of acquisition and organization capableness to positively power argumentation formulation and prosecute successful transformative improvement crossed the South-West.

“ I, therefore, privation to congratulate the enactment and crushed members of this noble relation for remaining acceptable for the tallness of your disengagement from progressive nationalist service.

“Even though you person retired, you are not tired,” helium said.

In his remarks, the Chairman of Ondo State Forum of Permanent Secretaries, Mr Bunmi Alade, described the juncture arsenic inspiring and important arsenic it brought unneurotic those whose stewardship and sacrifice had assisted greatly successful shaping the cloth of governance and administration.

Alade said that the voices of the retired Heads of Service and imperishable secretaries remained captious to the strengthening of the values of professionalism, integrity, and discipline, upon which the nationalist work indispensable proceed to stand.

He commended the visions of the relation to thrust integration, coordination and sustainable improvement crossed the South- West.

The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) study that the relation elected a caller acceptable of enforcement members.

The caller enforcement members are: Elder Demola Badejo, Regional President, from Ogun; Elder Daniel Aina, the Regional Vice President from Ekiti; Mrs Adenike Olufadewa, Regional Secretary from Oyo; and Alhaji Adekunle Adegbite, Assistant General Secretary from Ogun.

Others are: Mr Segun Olorunsogo, the Regional Treasurer from Osun; Mrs Adesunbo Abolarin,...