By Godfrey Bivbere

ABUJA—The Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity, has been petitioned over mass promotion in the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, without recourse to the Civil Service Rules and Regulations.

The petition by Peter Edochi, claimed that most of those promoted by the Director General, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, were either not due for promotion nor have they stayed long in their previous positions and worse still did not attend any promotion interview.

The petition read in part, “Recently, the Director General of the NDE without recourse to the civil service rules and regulations decided to ‘’dash’’ promotion to some staff of the directorate who were neither due for promotion nor did they attend promotion interview.

“The DG suddenly promoted eight state coordinators in the North central, North East and North West to grade level 16. One of the state coordinators was promoted from grade level 14 to 16. Some officers in the NDE were denied promotion due to ‘’lack of vacancy.” Some of these state coordinators who got automatic promotion have spent only two months on their previous grade levels.”