Commissioners: Perform Or Risk Sack-Gov. Obi

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has asked new commissioners in the state to perform or be ready to be thrown out of the government.

Speaking at the swearing-in of 16 commissioners and four special advisers approved by the State Assembly in Akwa, Obi said the state government would actualise the vision it had set and warned the officials against laxity, laziness and complacency.

The governor urged those not ready to work, to quit and warned that anyone who performed below expectation would be thrown out of the government.

While commending the commissioners and special advisers for their services to the state, Obi appealed to them to always be of good cheer and show love for their ministries.

“No ministry is better than the other, it depends on what individual commissioners make out of it. “This calls for creativity and ingenuity on your part as you will at the end of the day be judged by how rich or poor your ministry is and how you use it to serve the people of the state and humanity at large,” Obi said.

The governor urged the commissioners to be at peace with themselves, their ministries and local government areas, saying that now was the time for reconciliation and not belligerence.

Responding, the Commissioner for Lands, Mr Peter Afuba, expressed gratitude to the governor for the opportunity given them to work again in the vision of transforming the state.

Afuba said Obi had scored another first by being the first governor to return his entire cabinet and described the action as a vote of confidence on them.

“Our return by the governor is a mark of recognition that we worked well with him and a challenge to even do better. 

“We shall not let you down, whatever we did well, we will do better and whatever we did not do well we shall amend; we are bound with you in your desire to transform the State,” he said.