The Head of Service ( HoS) in Ondo State, Mr Bayo Philip, has warned that the new extant rules guiding the public service in the state have dismissal and criminal prosecution for offence of sexual harassment in the service.
Philip gave the warning Today in Akure during the opening of the First Annual General Meeting of the Association of Retired Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries of the South-West, hosted by the Ondo State chapter.
He said that the state had reviewed its civil service rules and policies in order to meet up with expectations of the public.
According to him, the reviewed civil service has increased maternity leave from three months to six months while there is provision for paternity leave of two weeks.
The HoS said that the service, with its new mantra: “don’t deliver short and don’t deliver late”, was aimed to align with the 21st Century of the public service with greater output.
Philip, who said that the state, which has 42,000 staff strength with 13,000 pensioners, had no arrears of staff promotion.
Also speaking, the state Chairman of the association, Mrs Mojisola Ajayi, appealed to all South-West governors to rejig the civil service by eliminating dysfunctionality and restoring efficiency to meet the people’s needs.
In the same vein, the South-West President, Dr Ebenezer Okebukola, said that the association had presented the blueprint on the proposed plan of action for the economic development of the South-West Nigeria to the region’s governors.
