The Ogun State government, through its Civil Service Commission, has asked persons seeking employment to pay a non refundable fee of N10,000 for application form.
This was communicated through a memo signed by the commission’s Permanent Secretary, Jacobs R.O.
The document noted that “Applicants are to obtain tellers from Room A261 at the Civil Service Commission for application form on payment of a non-refundable fee of ten thousand Naira (N10,000) per candidate”
It was noted that “The Application forms and other credentials should be submitted to the office of the Director, Appointment and Transfer (Civil Service Commission),Block A, Room A233, State secretariat complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.”
It has been gathered that sometime in 2021, the state government also asked poor employment seeking applicants to become fire service officers in the state to pay N10,000 as application form fee.
At that time, Governor Dapo Abiodun had approved the recruitment of qualified candidates to the post of Fire Officer II, GL.08, Higher Fire Superintendent GL. 08 and Medical Officer II, GL.12 into the mainstream of the State civil service.
Also at the time, the Civil Service Commission’s then permanent secretary, Mr. Kolawole Ogunlana had signed a release stating that prospective “Candidates should obtain a teller at Room A261, Civil Service Commission, Block A, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta for payment of non-refundable fee of N10,000, while forms must be submitted on or before Friday, November 26, 2021.”
Theliberationnews gathered that this development is generating storms in public space across the state. Equally, job seekers are calling for the intervention of the state governor to stop such exploitative levy on vulnerable job seekers.
