On Thursday, there was uncertainty at the site of the staff audit ordered by Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, as state civil officials refused to be audited and walked out on the auditors.
The verification process began a few days ago and has been ongoing at the Centre for Black Culture and International Relations.
It was anticipated to continue on Thursday, when Hospitals Management Board employees were scheduled to appear before an auditing consultant hired by the state government.
A few minutes after the workers arrived at the exercise site, Channels television discovered that some of them grew uneasy with the procedure and disputed with the consultant on the manner and other logistics involved in the auditing.
Consequently, the area became rowdy as some workers started singing solidarity songs and declared that they were no longer interested in the auditing process.
Recall that the Academic and Non-Academic Staff of Osun State-owned tertiary institutions had called on the state government to decentralise the planned staff audit of the state workforce.
The unions in a letter signed by the Chairmen and Secretaries, addressed to Governor Adeleke, called for immediate decentralization of the 2023 annual statewide staff audit.
The Academy Staff Union of the three institutions, ASUP, COEASU, NASU,
SSANIP of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke and Osun State College of Education, Ila-Orangun said there was the need for an urgent review of the statewide staff audit.
Speaking, the chairman of the Academy Staff Union of the polytechnic, Fatai Afolabi, said Governor Adeleke should direct the consulting firm on the need to decentralise the exercise.
Fatai who spoke on behalf of other union leaders further said that the centralization of the whole exercise at centre for Black Culture and International in Osogbo will add more burden on the workers in the state at this time when people are battling with the hardship occasioned by fuel subsidy removal.