Members of staff of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria have described alleged tenure elongation of principal officers at the college as a gross violation of the federal civil service rule.
The concerned workers, who pleaded anonymity stated this in separate interviews with newsmen in Zaria.
They alleged that some principal staff had occupied positions exceeding the stipulated tenure, adding that one of them had four different dates of birth, which paved the way for him to occupy his present position longer than necessary.
According to them, the Registrar and the Bursar of the college had exceeded their tenure of office going by the civil service rule.
They further alleged that some contract staff at the college were presently heading very sensitive departments and units at the expense of permanent staff who had remained stagnant.
However, when contacted, the Rector of the college, Captain Samuel Caulckric, who spoke through the Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Mohammed Balarabe-Abubakar said, “on tenure issue, we have our own scheme of service which we have been operating but somewhere along the line, from the ministry, we were meant to understand that the scheme of service is not a recognized one.
“We had to fall back to civil service rules and regulations and we wrote to the Head of Service through the ministry seeking clarification on the tenure issue and they gave us two weeks to come back for response,” he noted.
On contract officers heading departments, the Rector said NCAT was a peculiar organisation considering the fact that most of the officers were professionals.
“This is an aviation industry and when you talk of aviation you talk of lives of human beings, therefore, we have to be very careful.
“The Rector said it became necessary for them to allow some of these contract officers head departments; they must hold the office so that we will be able to man those areas.
“Because if we allow them go, there is every tendency that the system will collapse; but we are still trying to sort out things”, he assured.
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