Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has summarily sacked over 3,000 workers in 19 parastatals, agencies and departments, as he stopped their salaries with effect from January 4, 2016.
A Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, source said that over 3,000 workers were affected in the sack.
According to reports “the current action of the governor, which not only came on the heels of last Wednesday’s labour protest in Owerri, headed by the National President of Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba, is also closely linked with the recent obnoxious form which the administration forced Imo workers to sign before collecting their unpaid salaries.”
According to a statement by the Secretary to the Government of Imo State, Sir Jude Ejiogu, the workers caught in the sack-web include the Imo Water Corporation, Imo Cattle Market, Imo Sports Council, Imo State Environmental Transformation Commission, ENTRACO, Imo Marketing Company, Imo Consumer Protection Council, Hospital Management Board, and its headquarters staff.
Others are Imo Tourism Board, Imo Blue Lake of Treasure, Imo State Investment Promotion Agency, Imo Job Centre, Imo Water Development Agency, IWADA, Imo Library Board, Imo Agricultural Loans Board, Imo Livestock, Imo Poverty Alleviation Agency, Imo Palm Plantation, Agricultural Development Programme, ADP and Small Holders Unit.
Government explained that the action followed what it called “a productivity audit recently conducted in the parastatals, agencies and departments.”
The statement added that “Government is satisfied that it is no longer in public interest to keep running these agencies, parastatals and departments with huge cost on public revenue and no services to the public, under the present economic realities.”
Government promised that the affected workers would be communicated to in due course, about the administration’s next line of action regarding possible re-engagement, after the on-going concessioning exercise affecting the agencies, departments and parastatals.
The affected staff were ordered to handover all government property in their possession to their chief executives within 48 hours, while civil servants on secondment to any of the affected agencies, parastatals and agencies, were deployed to their parent ministries.
Agencies that escaped Okorocha’s sledgehammer were the Secondary Education Management Board, State Universal Education Board, General Hospital Okigwe, General Hospital Aboh Mbaise, Imo Essential Drugs, Specia Education Centre Orlu and School of the Deaf and Dumb, Orodo.
Others are Zoological Garden, Owerri, Logara Mbaise Remand Home, Government House Clinic, Imo Broadcasting Corporation, IBC, Project Finance Management Unit, Financo Brokers, Heartland Football Club and Imo College of Advanced Professional Studies, ICAPS, Owerri.
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Who is affected?how are these people supposed to survive oooooh!...ewo!!!
Rochas the useless fake governor was never voted in , he rigged it and won, people like Rochas will die by accident, very wicked man, you all need to see what is happening in Imo state, he is very wicked
ReplyDeleteMay he be struck by lighting n thunder together
DeleteI don't know where to stand on this issue but the truth is that most government parastatals have offices with 80% of members of staff practically doing nothing. You have something to do ther maybe once in a year and you won't even find anyone present. I remember when I went to visit my cousin in one ministry in Abuja, I was there with her from morning till close of work and not even one person in her office was doing anything all day!
DeleteHow can these brilliant youths be lying idle and wasting, the computer in front of them were all off! You can imagine doing that for the next 20yrs. They are in FCT so obviously they have to sign attendance register beginning and close of work so that means they can't even go out and do other things.
Most local govt admin offices, if you go there to get a clearance you will just see them gossiping and eating groundnut! Plus you can never get anything done in a day, you must come back the next day, even if it is just a signature. One lady just collected my file and kept inside her locker and continued eating groundnuts for almost 2hrs. Until I started threatening to go straight to the TR. Yet no one entered the office since I was there, so they were not even busy. About 8 of them in that office doing nothing. Some of the elderly ones even bring things to sell in the office and their customers come to the office from the market to buy (fish, onions,)name it. Yet the govt pay them every month.
His chat of 'job job job factory factory factory'. Is the stupidest catch-phrase I have heard. Now it is 'sack sack sack'
DeleteEnd time governor
ReplyDeleteAnd he hasn't paid some for more than one year. Nwokea agaghi ihu aleze eligwe
DeleteWhaaat!!! Over 3,000 workers
ReplyDeleteIssokay!
Okorocha yyyyyyyyy
ReplyDeleteHe just wasted his time because its not gonna work.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteEnd time strategic sacking
Oh no!
ReplyDeleteDis man has finally gone bonkers!
What does he mean he can no longer run dese parastatals with huge cost on the public revenue and under d economic situation...
Is he not the one Building universities in the North?
Rochas chai.u are not a fair man!
Oka Nma n'ezi like u!
That is the problem when my people elected a 419 again.
ReplyDeleteOnye wayo keep eating LGs fund.
God is watching you and your generation.
What about pensioners that you have owed for months now Rochas? You make them travel back and forth to get things signed,still nothing.
ReplyDeleteIs there ever a proper feedback procedure in this country? When will you ever "get back" to these people you sacked? Chai,common gratuity takes 100years to get ma ya fokwa sack.
I am sure my folks are biting their fingers wishing they never voted you.
No one is saying you should keep redundant agencies,just do the right thing for these people.
This guy is heartless . I just can't.
DeleteAs in ehhh.. during his 1st tenure, mumsy practically threw evrybody into d car to d village jst to gan vote ds thief.. 2nd tenure, my brothers did not evn talk to her, yet she still carried her husband(popsy) to gan vote.. now, no pension, she's lamenting upandan.. we told her 2 enjoy "her" governor. Lwkmd!! My parents are retired but very strong.. d hv business and part time jobs here and dia, that's y d are not complain'n.. Wn d were bn paid pension, d jst save d tk kia of demselves with dia side hustle cos nobody to train again. I hate dt man.. infact mumsy calls him Imo state beast. God will punish him well
DeleteIphie dear believe me, he was not voted in this 2nd tenure. First 4yrs wasn't funny so the people massively voted against him but what did he do....he publicly rigged the election and makes bold to even be saying it openly.
DeleteHe is one mean SOB
Apc change. Hehehehe
ReplyDeleteThat's the change they voted for,sad but people have to live with their choices
DeleteAPC - CHANGE. MAke una take am so. Una never start to see something. Okorocha continue with the sacking afterall na dem vote you IN.
ReplyDeleteMumu
DeleteThis man has shown his true colours..chai!!
ReplyDeleteStupid man. Owerri wey work no dey at all.
ReplyDeleteSo all these agencies exist in Imo state and yet it seems as if nothing at all is happening in Imo state. Hmm, it's well. I pity the people affected with this new development. I just hope they will be properly compensated.
ReplyDeleteMy Goodness. Now that the country is so hard. This is so unfair
ReplyDeleteChaaaaaaaaaaanGggggggge
ReplyDeleteVERY STUPID MAN OF A GOVERNOR
ReplyDeleteChai,so unfortunate...
ReplyDeleteOmg! This is bad.
ReplyDeleteIn this hard time.
They should pity these people nah. How do they want them to survive.
Salary slash is still better.
Let the APC vs PDP bashing commence.
ReplyDeleteAs sad as this may be. I've always maintained that government workforce is too bloated. There is too much redundancy in the system.
ReplyDeleteThe huge number of employees does not necessarily translate to efficiency and that inefficiency is funded with what should have being ploughed into capital development.
Take ministry of agric for instance, how has the large number of employees translated into self sufficiency as far as food for the populace is concerned? How has tourism & culture been impacted by the ministry in charge? Then consider the achievements of the other ministries. And huge funds are allocated for their salaries.
If it were possible, ministries should be given targets to meet and their remuneration at all strata should be based on how such target are met.
Then "who do anyhow go see anyhow".
Wicked man
ReplyDeleteWicked #Okoroawusa.
ReplyDeleteIt's so unfortunate. Nawa oooo.
ReplyDeleteHow will this families survive?
I am glad his evil deeds are not going unpunished. At least, it is making his wife and children obese.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is the man, President Buhari calls his right hand man???
XOXO MYSTERY
Lol!!!!!!!!
DeleteHhahaha as long as their account is also obese no be pipu dey rush marry them hahahhaha
DeleteHahahahahaha...
DeleteAjo onu!...
Hahahahaha....
DeleteChaaai I pity these ppl oh coulped with the harsh economic situation, its well.
ReplyDeleteGod of Abacha is still very much alife
ReplyDeleteThis is a big lesson to River state, pls learn from Imos woes and say NO to APC in Rivers state. As long as that short road between port harcourt and owerri is not completed I will never like this monster. This is somebody who want to be president of Nigeria ooooh, common managing a state is war anumanu somebody.
ReplyDeleteRochas aka pharaoh please let my people go.
ReplyDeleteBut that's what he did na. He let the people go. Lol
DeleteThis is bad, but some ministries all they do is to read news papers daily.
ReplyDeleteHow smart is this roach guy right now? For this incoherent reason you plunge innocent workers into an already over populated, demeaning and dangerous terrain (the unemployed)..without appropriate provision for them. Smh .. *Sing to me*.. la di da #MoreShitThanBrain #KingOak
ReplyDeleteYouths like me graduates after school and no job,our parents survive with little or nothing. Children are there to take care of and now.....3000 thousand people have become jobless...where do they start from?how would their children cope?its not what one prays to experience cause am talking from it.may God help us all
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