CSO Flays Contract Appointment For Kwara Clerk

The Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), an anti-corruption Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has criticised the contract appointment given to the retired Clerk to the Kwara State House of Assembly, Haji Jummai Kperogi.
The CSO expressed its position in a letter addressed to the Speaker of the House, Mr Yakubu Danladi.
The group described the continued extension of her tenure as the Clerk of the House following her retirement from office as unlawful.
The Tide source reports that ENetSuD is reputed for its promotion of good governance, transparency and accountability in Kwara.
The letter was also copied to the Attoreny General of the state and the Chairman of the House of Assembly Service Commission.
The letter, signed by ENetSuD’s Director of Legal Services, Mr Lukman Raji, described the contract appointment as illegal, unneedful and discouraging to career civil servants.
“Our attention has been drawn to the recent resolution of the House in its sitting of Wednesday (March 30), wherein they approved the unlawful contract appointment of Hajia Kperogi as the Clerk to the Kwara State House of Assembly for another period of one (1) year under your leadership.
“This is after your initial approval of her contract appointment and tenure extension as a Clerk to the House for an initial period of six (6) months that ended on March 29, making your unlawful approval for her continued stay in office to be for a period of one and half years.
“We wish to state categorically that the contract appointment of Hajia Halimat Jummai Kperogi or any other person as the Clerk to the House is ultra vires of the House and as such, tantamount to committing illegality ab initio.