Rauf Aregbesola

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has directed all the officers in the rank of Director in the State Public Service to proceed on compulsory annual leave .

The directive was made in a circular dated Nov. 2, signed by Mr Samuel Aina, the Permanent Secretary in the Public Service Office and obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Osogbo.

The governor said all officers occupying the position of Director, either in acting capacity or substantive who had not proceeded on annual leave since 2014 and 2016, should do so immediately.

Aregbesola said the compulsory leave was in the interest of their health and well being.

According to the governor, ” It has been observed that many officers in the state’s public service have not taken their annual vacation leave in recent time.

“Its a development that is having deleterious psychological effects on their state of health and mental stability.

” It is the burden of the duty of government to address this anomaly in the overall public interest”.

Aregbesola said the directive was in tandem with rule 100107 of the state public service rule 2011, which made annual vacation compulsory.

Aregbesola said all the affected officers should hand over to the next ranking person to them, adding that the affected officer should be on standby as they could be called for sensitive official assignment. (NAN)