REC Tasks Workers On Hard Work

The new INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Enugu State, Dr Lawrence Azubike, has urged the staffers to work hard to move the commission forward.

Azubike, who resumed duty in Enugu recently, also advised the staffers to avoid acts that could militate against the effective discharge of their responsibilities.

The resident electoral commissioner gave the advice in an interview with newsmen in Enugu on Thursday.

He said that though working for the commission was a paid job, it was also a national service which required the sacrifice of the staffers.

Azubike further advised the workers to ensure that they did their work with the national interest in mind to enable INEC to achieve its primary objective of conducting free and fair elections.

“I encourage them to be dedicated to their work and to be diligent and besides the fact that the staff or the officials will recognise hard work and perhaps reward hard work.

“Hard work is also intrinsically rewarding in itself in the sense that once you imbibe it wherever you now find yourself it would help you a lot even when you leave public service.”

He reminded the staffers that their actions would always have pervasive effect on the country in general.

The REC, therefore, appealed to the staff to regard their place of work as their second home, saying that it was their source of livelihood.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Musa Daura, has alerted the citizenry of a syndicate duping members of the public with the pretext to employ them as traffic wardens.

A statement from the state police command quoted the commissioner as saying that the syndicate sold their form for between N10,000 and N20,000 for low and higher ranks of the traffic warden service.

He warned the people, especially those seeking jobs, to beware of the group which also has a proviso to collect more money in hundreds of thousands after short-listing.