Ben Ezechime, Enugu
There is currently an uneasy calm in Enugu State over alleged secret appointment by outgoing Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration in the state.
A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Ikengaonline that the situation was causing ripples between outgoing governor and the incoming one, who sees the secret appointments as a burden that he is about to inherit.
According to the source, the governor is also accused of trying to recruit about 45 unqualified persons from Nsukka Zone as judges and magistrates in the state.
“He is also being accused of attempting to impose some junior civil servants and politicians on the people as permanent secretaries coupled with the recent surreptitious recruitment of over 1200 nurses, medical doctors and lawyers at Parklane Hospital, primary healthcare hospitals and Ministry of Justice respectively,” he said..
“This was coming at the heels of his inability to pay salaries, pensions and gratuities in most of the parastatals, institutions such as Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu State College of Education Technical, ESCET, subvention for Enugu State University of Science and Technology ESUT, subvention for the Post Primary Schools Management Board PPSMB, Enugu State Polytechnic, Iwollo, Ministry of Water Resources among others where he has been owing them minimum of 10 months even as staff and lecturers are languishing and living from hands to mouth, ” he said.
Ugwuanyi was also said to have carried out massive recruitment without following due process and ordered the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Mr. Robinson Odo and the Head of Service, Mr. Ken Chukwuegbo, to hasten the process of documentation by waiving interview session for them in order to borrow and pay the new intakes before the expiration of his tenure on May 29.
This, our source claimed was to render Mbah or any other person coming as next governor handicapped.
They equally accused Ugwuanyi of manipulating the ongoing appointment of permanent secretaries.
“People are also wondering why the same governor who has less than a month to leave office, is in a hurry to do that instead of allowing the incoming administration to appoint qualified hands that would work with him,” he said.
