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State government sacks 228 workers, gives reason
Information reaching the OsunReporters News confirmed that the Anambra State Local Government Service Commission has sacked six directors and 222 other staff members.
____”””””According to Leadership, they were fired for possessing fake certificates with which they gained employment into the commission.
……Chairman of the Commission, Mr Vincent Ezeaka disclosed the scandals to newsmen at the Commission’s office in Awka on Thursday.
_”””__::::In the same vein, two former staff members, one of whom was found to be working with the state-owned Nwafor-Orizu College of Education at Nsugbe, and another with Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, who were said to be collecting salaries for four years have been directed to refund the illegal salaries they received to the commission.
_____Ezeaka said that the sad developments were discovered in the ongoing verification and staff biometrics identification exercise being conducted by a four-man committee headed by a retired Permanent Secretary, Dr. (Mrs.) Ndidi Onuigbo, adding that the exercise is part of Governor Chukwuma Soludo-led administration’s agenda deliberately initiated to sanitise the local government workforce.
Ezeaka further explained that between January and April 2024, a total of 222 ghost workers have been discovered and weeded out of the local government service commission.
,,,,,+–*”””;;;He said from the verification exercise the bonafide staff members of the commission currently is about 4, 300, adding that they are the workers in the payroll of the commission pending when the verification committee would conclude it’s assignment, stating that the state government is taking serious steps towards ensuring that communities and local government areas are sanitized for things to get better.
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