The Bauchi state Joint Public Service Negotiation Council has directed all workers affected by the impending verification to be conducted by the state Civil Service Commission to boycott the exercise.

Chairman of the council Comrade Ali Ahmed told newsmen in Bauchi that “ we heard that the state government intended to conduct a verification exercise of its workforce from level 07 and above, but they asked the workers to purchase a new civil service form and asked them many things that were implicative because before you apply for a post as a civil servant you must have purchased and filled CSC form. Why are you buying the form again after you have spent many years in service, and government started the exercise without contacting us as stake holders in the matter.”