According to information provided by Mrs. Betty Emeka Obasi, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Abia State on Special Duties, 11,479 people, including pensioners and civil servants, have not yet been verified by the state’s civil service verification programme.
The state administration issued a warning to those who had not yet been confirmed, threatening to remove their names from all payment systems inside the state.
While addressing reporters on the results of this week’s Executive Council Meeting, which was chaired by Governor Alex Otti, Obasi revealed the figure in Umuahia.
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According to her, 62,479 state employees—including pensioners—have been validated thus far.
She continued by saying that while some people participated in the exercise but did not finish the verification process, others did not show up.
“We established a verification committee,” she declared. To ensure that what we are doing is credible, we selected representatives from the State Civil Service, Local Government, Pensions Board, Parastatals, Organised Labour; NLC, TUC, ICPC.
“We have begun the process of publishing the names of 11,479 individuals who were either unable to complete the verification or did not begin it at all at their various MDAs and parastatals, their institutions, and the Pensions Board. This means that if you have been removed from the system, you can return there, review, and if your name appears there, you can view the reasons why you were not eligible to be among those who were fully verified.”
Speaking earlier, Okey Kanu, the State’s Commissioner for Information and Culture, announced that employees and retirees in the State will have an extra two weeks to finish their verification and all required registration.
He advised people who still needed to be validated to use the next two weeks to get verified or risk having their identities deleted from the payment system.
He emphasised that the core policies of Governor Alex Otti’s administration include worker verification and public service system changes.
Additionally, under the “Community Choose Your Project” initiative, a N15 million community project will be carried out in each of the State’s autonomous communities, according to Rev. Fr. Christian Anokwuru, Special Advisor to the Governor on Policies and Interventions.
According to the arrangements, the state government would carry out the projects that the communities selected as being most important to them.
The benefited villages would only be required to pay 5% of the total in counterpart fees, according to the governor’s assistance.
