Daily Independent Online.
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Thursday, July 08, 2004.
Abia threatens to sack idle civil servants
By Uche Nwosu
Special
Correspondent, Umuahia
Abia State
government on Wednesday threatened to sack any civil servant who leaves his or
her office before the official closing hour.
The state
Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Ralph Egbu, said the
attitude of workers who abandons their duties as soon as it is 3 p.m. to go
home is not in tune with culture of productivity and discipline being preached
by the government.
He condemned the
excuse of some of them that they live outside the state’s capital, saying
that the government would start the use of register for workers in order to
monitor their movement in and out of office. He therefore ordered workers to
always log in all official movements during the work hours, adding that this is
the only way to check truancy.
Egbu, who was
briefing journalists at the government house Umuahia at end of the
state’s executive council meeting, explained that the government has made
concerted efforts to make Aba and Umuahia the twin towns of the state to be
very clean.
He said that more
than 200 refuse bins and trucks had been provided in the state, stressing that
the enumeration of houses and shops for easy taxation had already started.
On the dilapidated state secretariat.
Egbu said rehabilitation work at the secretariat has commenced, adding that it
would soon be connected to the national grid as street lights are being
installed on the streets leading to the secretariat.
