A community of public curiosity legal professionals has known as for the scrapping of Service Compact with all Nigerians, SERVICOM.
Pelumi Olajengbesi, talking on behalf of the community, urged requested the federal authorities to cease the tax payers cash from getting used to fund a moribund group like SERVICOM which he claimed, was now not servings any helpful objective.
Mr Olajengbesi mentioned this whereas addressing a information convention on Friday in Abuja.
He recalled how in 2004, Nigerians heaved a sigh of aid with the emergence of “Service Compact With All Nigerians” popularly generally known as SERVICOM.
He famous that the company was established to promote efficient, high quality and environment friendly service to the folks of Nigeria.
“Servicom empowered public officers to be at alert to their responsibilities in providing improved, efficient, timely and transparent service across governmental ministries, departments, agencies and parastatals”.
Mr Olajengbesi claimed that the physique was supposed to be a mechanism by which Nigerians can lodge complaints towards tyrannical and errant public officers whose conducts falls under the usual required of a public and civil servants.
“It has offices in all federal government agencies, taking complaints and ensuring efficiency, justice and fairness in all government agencies but all that have changed.
“The body has now failed to uphold the purpose of its establishment, it no longer address complaints and has now become very ineffective.
“The organization’s leadership and modus oparandi have accordingly encouraged abuses of official duties on the one hand as well as precluding victims of these errant officers from accessing appropriate remedy within the administrative system”.
He, due to this fact, canvassed that the federal authorities ought to both inject a brand new lease of life into the company or scrap it with speedy impact in order to cease losing scarce sources on unproductive ventures.
“While the organization had gone down the drain, its workers have continued to draw salaries from the government covers without doing anything to justify the pay.
”Go to all businesses of the federal government you’ll hardly see their traces in anyplace whereas the employees are nonetheless drawing pays from the federation account”, he mentioned.
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