In its Tuesday 12th November edition, Daily Trust highlights how civil servants who failed to get their party nomination for the 2015 general elections were reabsorbed into the service.
I personally was never aware that there are Supreme Court rulings which permit civil servants to be members of political parties, to declare their interest to contest for political positions and are only required to resign, if they secure the nomination of their respective parties, thirty days before the election date.
I was a civil servant in the First Republic and I served in the Military Governments that ruled the country from 1966 to 1978 when I retired.
I also recall that in the negotiations that led to the granting of independence to our country, one of the main point of emphasis was the entrenchment in our laws of an independent, impartial and neutral Civil Service for Nigeria.
It was so important that our Founding Fathers, solemnly signed an undertaking to ensure an impartial, professional…
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