Imo Directors To Take Promotion Exams Before Becoming Permanent Secretary – Uzodinma

Directors in the Imo State Civil Service will be taking promotion examinations before being elevated to permanent secretaries.

The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma announced this on Monday at the commemoration of his 'one year in office' in Owerri. He added that appointing directors as acting permanent secretaries in the state ministries, departments and agencies was a violation of the civil society rule and the state would no longer tolerate that.

The governor decried the rot going on in the civil service allegedly being perpetrated by some corrupt civil servants, noting that this has resulted in the ‘ghost’ workers syndrome, collection of double salaries and bloated wage bill for pensioners in the state.

He challenged pensioners lamenting over the non-payment of their monthly stipends to come up with credible records at their disposal for verification and rectification.

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Uzodinma reiterated his resolution to recover all public properties looted by previous administrations in the state, irrespective of the position the looter is holding in the society.

He then decried the violence and destruction of lives and properties in some part of the South-East as a result of the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra’s Eastern Security Network led by Nnamdi Kanu. He maintained that the ESN was the brainchild of the governors of the region but was hijacked by IPOB to create problems in the region.

He then called for partnership and synergy between journalists in the state and his administration for stronger and effective dissemination of policies and programmes of his Shared Prosperity agenda.