Civil servants in Osun State have walked out of the ongoing staff audit on Thursday.
The staff audit is being carried out by the Osun State Government through a consulting firm, Saibot Consulting.
Some civil servants who offered to speak with newsmen claimed the way the consultant has been treating them during the exercise angered them. They lamented that they could no longer endure the embarrassment.
The workers also kicked against the exercise, describing it as baseless.
Efforts to get the consultant to speak about the development proved abortive.
Also at the venue of the exercise, labour union leaders in the state gave a directive to all their members not to continue until after their review meeting and when their decision has been communicated to civil servants in the state.
Osun State Government had earlier mandated every of its workers to go for the staff audit.
While organised labour in the state opposed the idea insisting that they were not carried along on the issue, the state government, on the other hand, assured that the exercise was not aimed at belittling the workers but an effort to reposition the state civil service to be one of the best in the country.
The academic and non-academic staff of the state-owned tertiary institutions had called on the state government to decentralise the exercise due to the alleged incompetency of the consulting firm.
They threatened that if the exercise is not decentralised, they may embark on industrial action.
