According to him, the issue of employment would arise when the government finished dealing with what it met in the civil service. He added that there was an embargo that he made, stressing that it was still in place. He complained that the number of persons in the civil service was still very high even after verification. Otti decried the huge wage bill of about four billion naira for both local government and state on a monthly basis.
He said that government was aware that there were quite a lot of people in the service who might not be contributing at optimal levels and would need to do something about it. He said: “So, it may not be a priority at this time to open up the doors to bring in new people, except if we have a way of exiting a few people. “But you know with the civil service rules, it is not going to be very easy to exit people.
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