Osun Govt Begins Staff Audits, Set To Recruit New Teachers

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has started staff audits throughout the state’s public sector in an effort to fill open positions in the state’s education, health, and other subsectors.

According to a statement made on Saturday by Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the Governor’s spokesperson, the exercise began on Friday at the Governor’s office with the biometric capture of Adeleke, his deputy, and the Speaker of the House of Assembly.

Prior to gathering the data, policies and procedures were firmed up with the state labor leadership in a closed-door meeting to assure the preservation and fulfillment of the interests of all stakeholders.

The audit will improve the state government’s ability to meet the demands of the workforce, the general public, and the state leadership, according to Governor Adeleke, who reaffirmed that the exercise is not a witch-hunt.

“I want to assure workers and other stakeholders that the staff audit is not a witch-hunt. Our administration has workers’ welfare as number one on our governance agenda. So we will not take any action that will negatively affect formal and informal workers.

“The audit is to achieve several goals namely cleaning up the payroll system, validating the actual number of state workforce and establishing areas of vacancies across various sectors of the public service. We need to authenticate the data of our workforce.

“We also need to confirm existing vacancies within the public service. I have earlier issued a directive for the collation of vacancies for teachers and health workers. The compilation is almost completed. The outcome will then provide what we call data driven management of our public service.

“We are ascertaining the number of teachers we need in our schools. Our team is checking out the number of science, English, mathematics, social science and other teachers as well as which schools need what type of teachers.

“I assure the public that we are aware of the existing vacancies in our schools and health facilities.The audit report will provide a strong foundation for the recruitment of new teachers and health workers which our administration will embark upon after the ongoing exercise”, Governor Adeleke posited.