Hope rises for 63 disengaged staff of Ebonyi varsity as c’ttee begins sitting

The Chairman, exco committee on disengaged Ebonyi State University Staff, Senator Emmanuel Onwe yesterday assured the affected persons of positive resolution. About 63 Staff of the institution were laid off from service in December 2018 for violating the law guiding the school. Owne who is also the state commissioner for information and Orientation noted that sack of those employees is not connect to politics as insinuated by opposition party in the state. He disclosed this in a public hearing organized by the committee at the Mock parliament, Faculty of Political Sciences of Ebonyi state university on Monday. Onwe however expressed satisfaction with the findings from the hearing, said it will help the committee give an impartial report and necessary recommendations to the state government. “All I can say is that we are going to be objective with all the presentations. “We have seen the thoroughness with which the university did what they did, we have also seen the human impact and we have also seen the individuals that came to throw more light to what happened, all of these things are the factors we are going to take into account and get to an objective impartiality and at the same time give a compassionate report and recommendations to the Governor. “His Excellency saw the necessity to set up this committee so that nobody will go away feeling that they have been poorly treated. That is not his style. “There is no political consideration in what we are doing, this committee was set up a long time ago in fact more than three weeks ago, they were circumstances that made us seek for extension of time and that is why the hearing is taken place today. Reacting to the insinuation by the major opposition party in the state APC that they were going to reinstate the disengaged staffers of the university he said, “If the opposition like let them bring heaven that I don’t know where they are going to find it to any section of Ebonyi state, the opposition will still loss election at all levels because they have nothing to offer. “Anyone who thinks that Ebonyi state government and the leader of PDP will degenerate wanting to appease a few staff members they are less than one thousand just for the basis of political consideration just know who the person the state Governor is. The election of the Governor is assured Meanwhile the Chairman Non Academic Staff Union of Universities Ebonyi state chapter NASU Comrade Emmanuel Obo expressed joy that Governor David Umahi kept to his promise and emphasized that the work of the committee when concluded will met to his expectations. “It will met up my expectation, because I have been struggling for them to understand the mistake they did by terminating the job of this workers. Before his Excellency on 16th of January I appealed with him to look into this and my joy is that the committee he graciously set up have seen things for themselves, they interacted with the staffers whose appointment was terminated and I feel good because this is what I have been fighting for”. However some of the affected persons Rev. Dr Donatus Njoku who doubles as the secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria, Ebonyi state chapter emotionally describe his case as a lion swallowing him said he was coerce by the panel and finally asked him to produce his testimonial which he later did all for him to receive a letter of disengagement after. Mr John Ugwu was laid off for multiple dates of births while Mrs Justina Nwode was because falsification which she narrated that all the staff audit committee asked her when they saw how sick she was that she finished primary school at the age of 8 years. Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki