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Servants
(1)
No Public servant shall be –
(a)
(b)
(2)
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victimised or discriminated against either
directly or indirectly for having discharged
his or other duties faithfully and according
to law: or
be removed from office or reduced in rank
or otherwise punished without just cause.
In this section, “public servant” means a person
holding an office in a public service; a person in the
service of a local government authority, and a
person in the service of a Public Enterprise
(1)
A person holding an office in a public service shall
not hold office in any political party.
(2)
Any person who holds an office in a public service
who wishes to contest an election for a political
office shall, prior to nomination as a candidate,
obtain one year’s leave of absence without pay,
which leave shall not unreasonably be refused.
(3)
If a person who has obtained leave of absence in
accordance with this section is elected to a political
office, he or she shall immediately resign from his or
her office in the public service and, if he or she fails
to do so, he or she shall be removed from such
office.
Save as provided in this constitution, a person holding an
office in a public service –
(a)
(b)
shall retire from such office on
attaining the age of fifty-five years or
such other age as may be prescribed
by an Act of the National Assembly
(which age is referred to as “the
compulsory retirement age”); and
may retire with an earned pension at
any time after attaining the age of
forty-five years or such other age as
may be prescribed by an Act of the
National Assembly.