My Regrets As INEC Chairman – Prof. Attahiru Jega

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega has finally break silence. On Monday, he reviewed his tenure as the chairman of the electoral physique, saying his solely remorse was his incapability to create separate wage construction for these working with the fee.

Jega spoke in Abuja throughout a retreat organized for the electoral officers of the fee the place the 2015 elections have been reviewed. The retreat was titled “2015 common elections: classes and means ahead.”

Jega additionally declared that the employees of the fee have been subjected to troublesome circumstances in the course of the 2015 elections. He stated aside from the particular wage situation, the fee, underneath his management, carried out properly.

But he regretted that regardless of the enterprise he stated he made when he assumed workplace on the necessity to create particular wage construction for the members of employees of the fee, he was unable to perform that up until now.

He stated;
“I should say that we now have been aware of the necessity to maintain on motivating the employees to maintain on enhancing situation of service and situation of labor. And to maintain on enhancing the welfare of the employees.
“We have carried out our greatest as a fee beneath very troublesome circumstances and my main remorse, as I have all the time acknowledged, is that a main enterprise we made once we first got here in as a fee, which is to have a separate wage construction for the staffs of the fee, we have not been capable of get.
“And clearly that is one space the place we nonetheless should do a whole lot of work and put in plenty of effort as we transfer in the direction of the longer term and to enhance.
“But aside from that, I do not assume we now have finished badly when it comes to selling the welfare and the properly-being of the employees.
“We have ensured that salaries have been paid recurrently, we have now ensured that there are plenty of alternative for self enchantment via the organization of seminar and workshop with companions.”
He stated he was conscious that there was no method the fee might fulfill everybody, saying that some weren’t joyful when the fee moved a few of its members of employees to totally different departments.
He stated,
“Again as I stated, we couldn’t have glad the expectations of everyone, we consider that we have completed our greatest.”