Employment not my priority – Alex Otti
Published By: Paul Dada
Governor Alex Otti of Abia says employment of new people into the state’s civil service is not a priority of his administration.
The governor made this known during the monthly interactive session with the media on Thursday in Umuahia.
He said that the issue of employment would arise when the government finished dealing with what it met in the civil service.
He said, “There is an embargo that I made and that embargo is still in place”.
He complained that the number of persons in the civil service was still very high even after s verification exercise had been carried out.
Otti lamented the huge monthly wage bill of about four billion naira for both the local governments. But he assured that the government was working assiduously on improving and enhancing the pay for the civil servants.
He said: “So, it may not be a priority at this time to open up the doors to bring in new people, except if we have a way of exiting a few people.
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“But you know with the civil service rules, it is not going to be very easy to exit people.
“What we are trying to do with the establishment of the Civil Service Commission and resumption of the new Head of Service and new Permanent Secretaries is to ensure that our people are adequately trained.
“This is to enable them operate their skills and perform better.”
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