Governor Rochas Okorocha has told workers in the State that his administration will lift the ban on promotion as soon as the Sanitation exercise going on in the System is completed, stating that the government would like to know the status of those to benefit from the promotion exercise.
The governor made the declaration while addressing the workers in the State during the Celebration of their Day on Monday, May 1, 2017 at the Hero’s Square Owerri, charging the workers too, to appreciate all that his government has done for them since 2011 when his administration came on board.
He reminded the workers that they are the greatest beneficiaries of the free education programme in the State because there is no more pressure on them or on their Salaries for the payment of School fees of their children and wards especially when the free education policy is from Primary to tertiary Institutions.
He also told the workers that he was the first to pay them N20,000 minimum wage against the approved N18,000 minimum wage and also paid them wardrobe allowance, which has seen them today appearing in a special dress code and is also building ICT Centres at the State Secretariat and Local Government Headquarters to enable them become Computer literate.
The governor however informed that the government has concluded arrangement to recruit more than 3000 fresh graduates who are Computer literate into the Civil Service to make the System vibrant, adding that more than ninety percent of the workers are not Computer literate.
He assured that he would continue to dialogue with the leaders of the Labour Union in the State to ensure that the harmonious relationship his government enjoys with workers continues, adding that he would remain committed to the welfare of the workers in the State.
In his speech at the event, the State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Austin Chilakpu called for one hundred percent review of the agreement the Labour leaders had with the State government sometime ago over the payment of Salaries, stating that the Labour leaders would continue to demand that, until it is done.
