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10,000 Persons applied for Coordinators, Management C’ttee Positions in Ebonyi

As Umahi swears-in Head of Service /22 Special Assistants

Clement Nnachi ( Abakaliki)

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has restated that a total of 10,000 persons applied to be appointed as Coordinators and Management Committee positions in the State.

In a similar vein, Umahi has reiterated that no cultist would be appointed a member of the yet to be inaugurated State Executive Council.

Umahi made the declaration at the Executive Council Chambers on Wednesday while swearing-in the new Head of Service Dr Chamberlain Nwele, the deputy Principal Secretary Chief Emmanuel Obasi and the 22 other Special Assistants .

“We have over 10,000 application for Coordinators, Special Assistants, Senior Special Assistants, Management Committee members, it is heart breaking, our people have not yet changed their perception about political appointments, every body wants to be a Special Assistants and Senior Special Assistants”

He said that the administration would not condone any member of cult organization in his administration stating ” if we find anybody secretly or openly indulging in cultism, we will sack that person”

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” No government official will be a member of cult group, Special Assistants are ten, Senior Special Assistants are eight in number, one Personal Assistant to the Governor,” he said.

” If I am making more Special Assistants , it may not be more than 10 percent of what I have made earlier, it is important that people find something else to do ”

Speaking against the backdrop of appointment of Commissioners, Umahi restated that the appointment of commissioners would be the last to be done by the administration.

” I want them to know that nobody is indispensable, my Commissioners in the past dispensation resorted to gossiping about the governor, every day it was discussing the governor that they are not being taken care of”

He stated that the new crop of appointees will no longer going to be gossip, this is not era of coming to my office with files, you have to create wealth, these appointments will not be safe haven for any body”

Umahi said that the his administration has withdrawn overheads for officials of government warning ” don’t ask me for overheads any more”.

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