- The state government said the affected workers would be paid their terminal benefits in accordance with the State Civil Service rules.
All public servants employed between December 2022 to date in Abia state have been dismissed, the government of the south east state has disclosed
The State Governor Alex Otti ordered the dismissal of the civil servants
The notice of termination of engagement was contained in a statement dated Thursday, August 31st.
The statement said that the disengagement was necessary to “weed out ghost workers and streamline the state public service”.
It added that the affected workers would be paid their terminal benefits in accordance with the State Civil Service rules.
Since his assumption of office in may, Otti has taken raft of measures and decisions to reposition the state civil service and also address its infrastructural deficit.
The governor had earlier in July sacked 7,000 workers of the State Civil Service.
