As of the end of November, Abia State has declared that it will no longer be paying any employees who are not vetted by the government. Okey Kanu, the commissioner of information and culture, informed reporters of the outcomes of the State Executive Council meeting chaired by Governor Alex Otti.
He said that since the verification process was extended by two weeks, it was expected that all state employees would have been verified by now.
The commissioner also declared that the 197 schools that the state government had recently closed would have a window of time to get their acts together, and those who complied with the guidelines might be allowed to reopen.
Despite the fact that the verification exercise began in July, some employees had not yet taken part, according to Betty Emeka Obasi, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Special Duties.
The unconfirmed staff members’ names, according to her, have been posted on notice boards within the MDA. She further mentioned that the unverified staff members are supposed to provide their documentation to their heads of establishments, who would then forward it to the verification committee.
“We expect that everybody that is a staff in the state ought to have been verified. We have a good number of people that haven’t done that. Some didn’t appear at all, some did and could not complete for various reasons.”
She disclosed that because Governor Otti’s administration is compassionate, it chose to stop at simply removing the names of the unverified employees from the payroll rather than bringing charges against them for receiving payments before being officially acknowledged as legitimate employees of the Abia State Government.
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