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Nemesis has caught up with dishonest civil servants who falsify their age so as to fraudulently remain in service when actually they have passed retirement age.

Many of them have been discovered and the stick applied on them to quit the civil service.

The Chairman of Delta State Civil Service Commission, Chief (Mrs.) R. Amioku made this known while clarifying allegations of forceful retirement of some civil servants in the ongoing screening exercise carried out as part of civil service reforms to ensure productivity and effective service delivery.

Mrs. Amioku, who also doubles as the Chairman of the screening committee, made the clarification on Thursday, June 26, 2025 while speaking to journalists who visited the commission complex in Asaba where the verification exercise is still on going.

She confirmed that those affected are those who falsified their age and those with questionable credentials, pointing out that the ongoing screening exercise had revealed that the majority of those still working in the public service are above working age.

Mrs Amioku said: “A lot of people who are supposed to have retired from the civil service are still working, reducing their age so that they can still be at work.

“In the process of the verification exercise, the commission has discovered some persons who finished primary school at age 2, others finishing secondary school at age 11, how can that be possible?0

According to her, the state government was only doing the right thing, and not the narratives being spurn in the public space that the government is forcefully retiring civil servants.

“ We have a lot of people in the payroll of the state government that are not working, some are not even in Nigeria but receiving salary from the state government, and we need to do this so that we know those working for the state government”.

She, however, urged civil servants to always give their real age to avoid being a victim and take the screening exercise in good faith, we are not oppressing anybody but to ascertain those who are really working in the civil service

Recall that some affected civil servants have accused the state government of forcefully retiring them from the public service when they just started enjoying the new minimum wage.