UMUAHIA-GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State has approved waiver for employment in the state civil service.
According to Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Charles Ajunwa, the decision was taken by the Government to reposition the state’s economy.
The decision, he explained was taken by the State Executive Council had last.
In a statement, Ajunwa named those to benefit from the waiver for employment to include Abians, especially youths and those who returned from the northern part of the country because of security problems.
Others to benefit from the waiver for employment, according to him, are non-indigenes disengaged from the state’s civil service in 2011.
It would be recalled that in apparent response to continued shortfall in revenue accruable to the state, the state government had placed an embargo on employment of civil servants.
The Government’s job embargo pitched the state against fresh graduates desirous of employment; the big hammer fell mostly on no- indigenes that were disengaged to allow the state sufficient leverage to recover from an imminent financial distress.
However, Governor Orji has said that an appreciable increase in the state’s Internally Generated Revenue has offered him an opportunity to absorb fresh graduates with special consideration for non-indigenes who were disengaged from the State Civil service in 2011.
The Government has therefore the Governor inaugurated a committee headed by the state’s Head of Service, Mr. G.C. Adiele, Chief of Staff to Governor, Mr. Cosmos Ndukwe, Commissioner for Education and Commissioner for Youth Development, to work out modalities for a successful execution of the pronouncement.
Also, the Government has also inaugurated a Strategy Committee for the building of an Airport in the State.
