Sacked Workers: NGO Gives Okorocha 14-Day Ultimatum

The Campaign for
Democracy (CD), South-East Zone, has given Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, a 14-day ultimatum to recall over 3,000 state workers he sacked recently as well as apologise to them.
The Zonal Chairman, Mr Uzor Uzor, who spoke in an interview with newsmen in Enugu, said sacking the workers without just cause or explanation was uncivilized and undemocratic.
Uzor said if the governor did not reverse the sack, CD would mobilize to lock down the state.
“We have given Gov. Okorocha as a mark of respect, 14 days to apologise to Imo State workers for this embarrassment”, he said.
Uzor said that the governor should know that Imo was not the only state in the country facing current economic difficulties.
He decried the action of Okorocha, who he said, promised to provide jobs for the youths.
He called on Okorocha to follow due process if there was need to retrench  workers.
“The excuse the governor is giving does not amount to what would lead to retrenching of workers who have put in meritorious service of between seven and 20 years.
“Gov. Okorocha rode on the mantra of rescuing Imo and creating jobs for teeming unemployed youths, but we are highly surprised that he would turn against the job creation.
“A governor who is supposed to have compassion for the people under him is now insensitive to their plight” he said.

Chief of Staff to Imo State Governor, Chief Uche Nwosu (4th left) in a group photograph with Turkish investors and some state officals that visited him at Government House in Owerri last Friday.