The affected permanent secretaries had served in that capacity for four years and above. Also affected are some directors who had been in office for eight years and above.
A statement released yesterday in Lokoja by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mrs Petra Onyegbule, said the government approved the retirement.
She says: “The retired permanent secretaries have been paid their consolidated benefits.
She stated that directors who had been in office for eight years and above but had yet to attain retirement age or maximum number of years in office were given opportunity to partake in an examination and interviews to fill the position of the retired permanent secretaries, adding that the outcome of the exercise was still being awaited.
“The move was in line with the policy of the present administration to ease the top heaviness of the service and correct a situation where the civil service lacks staff at the lower cadres while the top is heavy, leading to an inverted pyramid,” she adds.
Furthermore, of the total number of civil servants dismissed, 1,667 were for certificate forgery while 107 were sacked for involvement in fraud.
The statement said the figure of those with forgery cases was expected to increase as more reports came in from institutions where enquiries for certificate verification had been sent to.
