Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has announced vacancies in the building, maintenance, emergency services and agricultural sectors in the state.
In a press release by the Chairman, Edo State Civil Service Commission, Princess (Mrs.) Ekiuwa Inneh said the new vacancies are coming on the heels of the state government’s renewed commitment to inject new life in the civil service in pursuance of impactful infrastructural and social development projects in the state.
The vacancies are for engineers, surveyors, firemen, architects, veterinarians, forest officers, town planners, among others.
Nothing less than 42 vacancies in various disciplines are open and applicants are to apply through the state civil service commission.
The recruitment is an affirmation of a number of policy pronouncements made by the governor in recent times, particularly the setting up of ambulance service to facilitate the work of first responders in emergencies; setting up structure for management of the state’s forest assets; establishment of livestock farms and reviving the state’s real estate and agricultural sectors.
It was gathered that the state government was keen on ensuring that professionals man the key offices that would be interfacing with the private sector, which is increasingly expanding since the governor’s expression of commitment to industrialising the state.
Recall that in his Workers’ Day speech, Governor Obaseki said that the state had not sacked any worker since his administration took the reins; rather provision had been made to employ more.
“This government is proud that it has not sacked any worker even those that were moribund in their functions.
“Rather, we have done so much to reabsorb, retrain and reassign these workers.
“About 186 staff of the moribund Edo Line and Edo Courier have been redeployed to the Ministry of Infrastructure while we are working out ways of liquidating its debt of about N1.5bn.
“In a few weeks, the Civil Service Commission will advertise to recruit more civil servants to fill critical vacancies in the system,” he said at the Workers’ Day event. Information Nigeria