The Nigeria Union of Agriculture and Allied Employees (NUAAE), has called on the federal government to revert to career progression in the appointment of managing directors for the River Basin Development Authorities (RBDAs).
The Federal Ministry of Water Resources/ River Basin Development Authority’s (FMWR/RBDAs) trade group of NUAAC in a communique issued in Abuja on Sunday, lamented that in the last four years appointments into the positions of the MDs and executive directors in RBDAs were filled by non- career officers.
The communique, which was signed by Comrades Mudi Olayinka Raji and Apostle Nwafor Nkiken, chairman and secretary of the forum respectively, condemned the development and called on the Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, to reverse the trend.
“The forum-in-session observed with dismay that in the last four years, the appointments into the positions of managing directors and executive directors in RBDAs have been filled mostly by non-career officers.
” The forum-in-session strongly condemns this derailing of the fairness embodied in the career progression policy and its interest in stagnating hard working civil servants of RBDAs.
“This avoidable loss in effectiveness and efficiency in the management of RBDAs and forum’s total commitment to the continuing success of RBDAs causes the forum-in-session to appeal to the minister of (Water Resources) to revert to career progression as the overriding basis for the appointment of managing directors and executive directors of RBDAs”, the communique read.
