According to Punch:
A
former Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly and a delegate to
the National Conference, Mr. Olawale Abdulsalam, on Tuesday said
government must provide adequate welfare, training and retirement
benefits to tackle age falsification among public servants.
The member of the Committee on Public Service identified corruption
and unfounded fears of the future as part of the reasons why government
workers falsified their ages.
In an interview with journalists in Abuja, Abdulsalam argued that
corruption was not limited to public service but also existed in the
private sector.
he said, “What we need to do is to be sincere. The civil service is
part of the society and part of the Nigerian problem. We have to take a
holistic look at the issue of corruption vis-a-vis how it affects the
civil service.
“If you look at the civil service, one would ask is the welfare
okay. Is the training okay? Most of the civil servants are afraid to
retire; they falsify their age and falsify their documents because they
are afraid of what tomorrow holds for them. All these are corruption
“Their thoughts while in service are pre-occupied by when I retire
what do I do, how do I survive? We have to look at that aspect such that
the day you enlist into the civil service, government must continually
remind you that you will retire someday; hence you need to start making
preparations.
“Once you have that system in place, for you to now say you want to
embezzle money will reduce because you know there is a system that will
take care of you after retirement”.
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