Enugu Wants Abia To Pay Sacked Workers

The Enugu State Government, has urged its Abia State counterpart to settle the entitlements of non-indigenes it sacked from its civil service in 2011.

Reacting to the sack, the Chairman of the state Civil Service Commission, Mr Albert Nnamani urged the Abia Government to pay the sacked workers or recall them.

Nnamani told newsmen  in Enugu  that it was unpatriotic and unconstitutional to sack a worker simply because the person was from another state.

“They should please do well to recall our people or pay them their entitlements. Some have put in 30 years and twenty-something years and with one letter, one single line back-loaded to their state of origin.

“What offence did they commit? Just because they happen to come from a state other than your own? No, it is wrong.

“After using their skill, serving you for years, you just woke up one day and say go back to your state of origin.

“There is no language, there is no word, in the public service rule or in the constitution of the Federal Republic like back-loading. You do not backload. You get employed as a contract. “

Nnamani noted that there were non-indigenes working in the state, adding that the state government had no intention of sacking them.

On whether the state  would absorb the sacked workers, Nnamani said that if the government directed the commission, it would do so.

Abia State Government had recently issued a circular recalling the sacked non-indigenes except those from the South-East while Abia daughters married outside the state needed to get exemption from the governor before being re-absorbed.