The appointees, comprising all the 13 Council Chairman, 64 Development Centre Coordinators, 342 Liaison officers, 171 Ward Councillors and 512 Management Committee members, among others, stormed the new Governor’s Lodge at the Ochudo Centenary City, Abakaliki on Monday, bearing the APC symbolic brooms and banners affirming their loyalty to the Governor.
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Governor David Umahi revealed the condition on Monday at the new Governor’s Lodge, Abakaliki, while addressing the Coordinators and others who paid him a solidarity visit over his defection to the All Progressives Congress.
Obviously, there have been brewing underground, clannish interests, each strategising with their political gladiators to clinch the governorship slot, come 2023.
True to Umahi’s forecast, the consequent decline in federal revenue filtered down to the States, creating a deep lacuna in both capital and recurrent budgets of the entire nation, a development which almost crippled most States and resulted in government -Labour face-offs in a good number of States, among other crises.
Governor David Umahi made the call on Wednesday in Abakaliki while swearing-in the newly inaugurated 16-member governing council of the institution
Explaining that junior workers would receive 100 per cent bonus and senior workers 50 per cent, he challenged the university authorities to emulate his administration by paying salaries on or before the 20th of every month
The bill, tagged: “Budget of Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction in Economic Recession,” allocated N87.061 million for capital expenditure, representing 68.43 per cent of the budget
Umahi remarked that in keeping with the government’s prison decongestion programme, murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and related cases must pass through the entire judicial process
The governor gave the confirmation on Tuesday in Abakaliki when he visited the communities.
According to Umahi, the loss of lives and the magnitude of property destroyed in the communities indicated that the perpetrators of the clash were hired
He said the ministry was investigating the sex scandal rocking some schools across the state, adding that one lecturer in Ebonyi State University has been placed on indefinite suspension pending the outcome of the reports of sexual allegations against him
Nkah also said that a dedicated account would be opened where money would be paid into every month for the liquidation of over N5 billion arrears of pensions and gratuity
He thanked a former Governor of the State, Dr. Sam Egwu, for mediating during the government-Labour dispute in the state last year and also hailed the Nigeria Labour Congress for its show of understanding
This was contained in a news statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Emma Anya, on Monday in Abakaliki.
Anya said the increase took effect from August 2016
Eze Igwe, the Protem President of the organization, who disclosed this on Sunday while briefing newsmen in Abakaliki, noted that it was collaborating with the Ebonyi Union in the United Kingdom to resolve the issue.
Igwe said: “We are faulting the state government in its contention that it has no funds to continue the sponsorship and we feel that this would amount to wastage of resources
Umahi, who received some stakeholders of Abakaliki Local Government Area in his office in Abakaliki on Wednesday, said he was happy that those of them that worked for Labour Party during the last general elections had decided to return to the PDP.
Noting that the damage was huge, Umahi said the report would be sent to the Federal Government with a view to assisting the state and farmers whose means of livelihood had been severely affected
The bill, tagged: “Budget of Divine Actualisation,” set aside N62,396,750,000.00 for capital expenditure, representing 61.68 per cent of the budget outlay while, N38,757,896,030.00 was set aside for recurrent expenditure, being 38 per cent of the total estimate
Disclosing this to newsmen during a press briefing in Abakaliki, the state Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Senator Emmanuel Onwe, stated that the decision to abolish the charges was prompted by the public outcry that greeted its introduction
The House of Assembly condemned the imposition of various taxies and levies on the people, which it said had caused protests by several groups and heightened tension in the state
He also expressed his satisfaction with the humility demonstrated by Offor in handling the disagreement between the state government and the electricity distribution company over billing