Ostensibly to ensure that all eligible voters register in the ongoing registration exercise, the Abia State government has declared today as work-free day for all its civil servants. In the same vein, all markets in the state would also not open for business next Tuesday to allow traders to register.

The state commissioner of information and strategy, A.C.B. Agbazuere, who disclosed this during the post executive council meeting press briefing at the Government House in Umuahia, also said any public servant that did not register for a voters card would not be paid their January 2011 salary.

"The public holiday was part of government's mobilisation strategy to ensure that everybody was given the opportunity to register without having an excuse," Mr. Agbazuere said.

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Do they have any legal backup for such pronouncements?
Is it enshrined in the constitution, labour laws?
It should be voluntary, imo.

colonization in another dimension

Don't mind dat orji guy. . .

The gov. is too desperate to return and do nothing as usuall, he must be kicked out, abia youths in nl take note