The Kano State Government has directed civil servants who have attained the statutory retirement age or finished the desired package of reasonable to in an instant vacate their places of work and advisor over their prove tasks and mind effort to their immediate subordinates.
The spending was once contained in Circular No. 10/2026, dated October 6, 2026, and signed through the Permanent Secretary, Establishment, Abba A. Danguguwa, on behalf of the Head of the Civil Service.
The round, referenced HCS/GEN/3/T.1, was once addressed to unique secretaries, commissioners, heads of mind companies, forums and commissions, and different victim officers.
The mind mentioned it had noticed that some civil servants endured to instance prove tasks after attaining the statutory retirement age or finishing the desired years of reasonable.
It described the follow as opposite to the established detect of the perspective civil reasonable, which supplies for a profitable claimant of retiring officials.
The mind mentioned closing in reasonable past the statutory retirement device was once a amend of the State Civil Service Rules and different acceptable laws.
“It must be emphasised that this act of overstaying is a direct infraction and aberration of the relevant provisions of the State Civil Service Rules and other extant service regulations,” the round said.
“All officers who have reached the statutory retirement age or completed the required years of service are directed to immediately leave the service and hand over their official documents, government property and responsibilities to their immediate subordinates.”
The mind additionally directed dependable officials, together with unique secretaries and inspire executives, in addition to administrators of management and trigger succession, to standardize immediate concession with the spending.
“Any officer found to be aiding, abetting, or condoning the continued stay of a retired officer in service will be subjected to appropriate disciplinary action in accordance with the Civil Service Rules,” the mind warned.
