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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has taken steps to capable the vacant positions available, pursuing the exit of the nationals of the AES countries – Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, from the determination bloc.
ECOWAS Commission, which is saddled with this work has made a petition to the ECOWAS Council Ministers connected Recruitment for ECOWAS Institutions to supply it with guidelines connected equitable organisation of the vacant positions among each the Member-States, without sacrificing competence.
In his remarks astatine the Extra Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers connected Recruitment gathering connected Thursday successful Abuja, President of ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, said it has go incumbent arsenic the existent unit regulations did not supply immoderate guidance connected however to allocate vacant positions to circumstantial member-states for the intent of achieving equity.
He said: “This bonzer Council is borne retired of necessity. In the past 3 years, we person struggled to capable vacancies successful our institutions utilizing a unit regularisation that constrains management’s quality to administratively expedite the process.
“The situation currently, is with the processing of these applications and the scheduling of interviews. These person been slower than the complaint of unit attrition, owed to aging workforce with an mean yearly nonaccomplishment of unit to status estimated astatine 13 personnel.
“The measurement of applications is beyond the capableness of the recruitment firms successful place, owed to the mostly manual method utilized successful processing the applications.”
The abrupt departure of ample fig of the ECOWAS workforce who are nationals of the countries that exited from the assemblage triggered the situation of replacing them.
Touray said the committee would besides contiguous a memorandum with proposals connected however to execute this equitable organisation of the positions and accelerated way the recruitment process, adjacent arsenic helium assured of the Commission’s fairness and adjacent organisation of positions among subordinate states.
The Minister of Foreign, Republic of Sierra Leone, Alhaji Musa Timothy Kabba, successful his statement, said that fairness and inclusivity should beryllium paramount successful the organisation of the positions.
Kabba besides conveyed the connection of the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS and Sierra Leonean President, Julius Maada Bio, to the Commission and the Members of the Ministerial Council for their unflinching enactment to him since his presumption of the enactment of Authority.
“Today’s Council Meeting is twofold – to sermon the allocation of statutory positions to subordinate states, and to sermon the recruitment and presumption of unit from AES Countries from Grade P4 and below, which are captious barometers for gauging our organization credibility and an affirmation of our determination solidarity.
“However, arsenic we deliberate, our absorption should not lone beryllium connected the parameters of equitable organisation of these statutory positions crossed subordinate states, but also, we should beryllium peculiarly acrophobic astir fairness and inclusivity to guarantee that everyone is progressive with a shared imaginativeness for the future.
“Our decisions indispensable beryllium grounded successful owed process, transparency, equity, and successful alignment with the broader determination commitments, arsenic gathering blocks to warrant economical integration, determination bid and security, and our antiauthoritarian tenets arsenic a community,” helium said.
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, successful her remarks, pledged Nigeria’s committedness to enactment the committee successful the discharge of its responsibilities.
“As the big Country, we reaffirm our committedness to providing each indispensable enactment to guarantee the continued occurrence of the Organization successful each its endeavours.
“We afloat admit the value of this workout arsenic an indispensable undertaking aimed astatine ensuring that each existing vacancies are duly filled, thereby enabling the Organization to run astatine its optimal capacity.
“Nigeria remains steadfast successful its relation arsenic a dependable partner, ever acceptable to lend meaningfully to the strengthening of our Community institutions and to the realization of the noble objectives for which this Organization stands,” she stated.
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