Nigerians have raised eyebrows over the just-concluder promotion exercise of some Federal Permanent Secretaries, with the recently conducted examination by the office of the Head of Service, HoS, of the Federation.
CompassNG learnt that the result of the promotion examination released last Tuesday is presently attracting serious condemnations across the country.
There are calls already urging the Presidency, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC, as well as the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the controversial promotion.
Specifically, there are alleged leakage of examination papers, incredible nepotism, victimization, among other reasons, as the basis for the need to probe the June 1 promotion results.
While it was alleged that the result of the promotion examination was corrupted and fraudulently manipulated, it was also alleged that there was no credibility and fairness in the process, hence the need for the Presidency to urgently stop the process and as well probe it, particularly the leakage of the examination papers.
Those aggrieved are of the view that should the Presidency fail to quickly probe the controversy and allegations against the processes of the promotion examination, it will amount into sending dangerous precedent in the Federal Civil Service.
It was reliably gathered that fresh controversy over the results reared its head, following the failure of 21 directors on Grade level 17 in the Federal Civil Service, who sat for the promotion examination in Abuja last week Monday.
With the results of the promotion examination released on Thursday, the remaining 25 directors who passed the examination were to sit for the next stage of the promotion examination, said to be the Information Communication Technology, ICT, proficiency test fixed for that day.
The document containing the results of the promotion examination, titled, ‘Re; Selection Exercise for the Appointment of Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil service,’ and signed by Sunny Echocho, on behalf of the examination committee, showed that the 25 directors who passed the written examination and invited for the next stage, scored 50 marks and above in the examination, while the 21 directors who failed the examination were those that scored below 50 marks.
It also showed that a candidate with 33.5 per cent mark was the director with the lowest score in the examination, while the director with 68.5 scored the highest mark.
