Representative Senate Majority Leader and Chairman Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Ajayi Boroffice,
has communicated stresses after he as of late found that the space office in Nigeria that should utilize researchers and specialists are utilizing graduates of religious studies and other unrelated courses.
Boroffice said this at the yearly public space exchange/media gathering on space science and innovation on Friday, December 4. He said the organization should be sterilized as such activities add up to abuse considering the way that the care staff of the office establishes around 80% of the labor force. He likewise affirmed that individuals pay between N2 million to N2.5 million to find a new line of work in the space organization.
"How can you be taking people with religious studies in space centre? It is misemployment when the support staff that constitute about 80 per cent are the workforce. It is wrong. We need experience. We need scientists to constitute about 70% per cent of the workforce but the reverse is the case.
I learnt that the ICPC is around, scrutinizing employment documents, I heard employment is earned with N2 million, N2.5 million. It is sad.
We have to reexamine ourselves. We have to sanitize the space agency so that we can achieve the purpose of nation itself." Boroffice said
Reacting to the claim, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, said the public authority is resolved to address the slip-ups made.
"I want to assure you that this administration is very interested and this minister here is a big champion for space science and technology, and we will continue to do the best we can.
I will like to assure the deputy majority leader of the Senate that we agree with you about the mistakes that were made here.
They are also mistakes that you can find in government institutions. But we are determined to correct those mistakes and we are taking the necessary steps to make sure they are corrected." he said
