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...For a better society... Friday, September 03 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Politics Opinion Foreign News Fashion Metro Sports Features Columnists View from America Business Money/Market Maritime Aviation Motoring Rail/Road Cabinet sack: Odili shocks politicians Wednesday dissolution of the River State Executive Council (exco) came as a surprise to most political appointees in the state. Governor Peter Odili, announcing the dissolution, direct all commission, special Advisers, Head of Service and secretary to the state government (SSG) to hand over to the permanent secretaries in their respective ministries and bureaux. Some of the political appointees contacted expressed shock and disbelief about the development. The dissolution which was the last of the 16-paragraph broadcast came as a surprise after months of waiting for a new executive council. Most of the commissioners and political appointees received the sack message through the broadcast as they were not aware that the governor who had travelled overseas on vacation was back in the state. Odili who cut short a two week vacation abroad, the first in two years, returned home following spate of violence and shooting in the state in the past two weeks. The dissolution of the state exco came as a surprise to members of the public who speculated that Odili would not sack political office holders despite intense pressure on him. Weeks after the state House of Assembly cleared six candidates for appointments into the state executive council, there was no indication that the governor will carry out the action. At a retreat last July for political appointees, Odili directed them to prepare their handover notes and submit to him within one week. Odili also told the gathering that an assessment would be done and by the end of the week, the verdict of which will be made public and those who had not done well would be asked to look for something else to do. According to Odili, political appointees had misconstrued government’s patience to mean inability to act, pointing out that government’s resolve to serve Rivers people cannot be compromised. Odili had expressed displeasure over how some top government functionaries had worked to sabotage the new spirit of honesty, service, integrity and ethics. The Governor accused some government officials of colluding with contractors to inflate proposals submitted to government and warned that the issue of frugality was not a matter of rhetorics. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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