Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has offered automatic employment to Edo – born Aminat Yusuf, a first-class law graduate, into the state’s public service.
This followed Aminat’s emergence as the best-ever graduate at the Lagos State University (LASU) achieving a 5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) in the institution’s Law degree programme.
The State’s Head of Service ,Anthony Okungbowa,who announced the offer on behalf of the governor said “Beyond merely congratulating her, we have offered automatic employment to her. Indeed, we have reached out to her parents and spoken with them. They have accepted our offer of employment.
“She has not done her law school program and her youth service. We are proposing to write to the National Youth Service Corps so that she will serve with us here in Edo State after her law school program so that we don’t run the risk of losing her,” the governor said.
According to him,beside the offer of employment, Yusuf would receive other forms of support as reward for her sterling feat.
He added that the state is creating the best working environment to ensure that the “state civil service becomes attractive enough for the best talent within and outside the state and thanked those who have made the state proud due to their excellent performance in their studies.”
According to him, “We have set this as a priority and will get the best to work in the state. We have done everything within our power as a government to ensure that we create an enabling environment for work and as a result, we also want the best hands.
“We are creating the best work environment here so that the public service in Edo State can become attractive enough for the best talent from within and outside the state. We thank our dear young men and women who have excelled in their studies and we expect that more of them will achieve this feat,” he said.
