The Independent National Electoral Commission, has given order to four directors to proceed on terminal leave following the implementation of a policy mandating all directors with eight years or more of service to retire from the public sector.
The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, declared this in Abuja on Wednesday.
Olumekun noted that following the Federal Government’s circular, HSCF/SPSO/268/T3/2/37, issued on July 27, the commission approved the implementation of a policy mandating all directors with eight years or more of service to retire from the public sector.
Meanwhile, Olumekun did not discloed the names of the four affected directors.
The INEC information chairman noted that while two of them served as heads of department at the commission headquarters in Abuja, the other two served as administrative secretaries in the states.
“As per this directive, four directors of the commission will proceed on terminal leave. Two of them serve as heads of departments at the national headquarters, while the other two are deployed as administrative secretaries in our state offices.
“However, it is important to note that clinical officers in the medical cadre are exempted from this policy, as clarified in Circular MH. 7205/T/31, dated September 7,” he said.
