Shocker - Edo Assembly Probes Dismissal Of Indigenes From Abia Civil Service

EDO State House of Assembly, Tuesday, gave its Committee on Public Petition two weeks to investigate the alleged wrongful dismissal of some Edo indigenes from Abia State’s civil service.

The directive followed a petition to the state legislature by nine indigenes of the state who alleged that they were dismissed from Abia State’s public service without notice.

The petitioners, whose petition was read on the floor of the House, urged the Assembly to pass a resolution asking the Edo Government to re-absorb them into the state public service.

The petition reads: “We, the Edo State indigenes, including National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, merit award winners serving in Abia State, want to observe that you have great passion for the protection of the interest of all Edolites domiciled anywhere in the world and in this country irrespective of political or religious affiliations.

“We passionately appeal to the House to prevail on Governor Adams Oshiom-hole to direct the re-absorption of all Edo indigenes so affected by the non-indigenes discrimination policy of Abia State Government leading to our removal from the state civil service without notice.”

Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Uyigue Igbe, handed the petition to the Committee on Public Petition, directing it to make its report available to the state legislature within two weeks.

Source - http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/edo-assembly-probes-dismissal-of-indigenes-from-abia-civil-service/

Good. The shyt has finally hit the fan. Now this naive action by T. Orji has gone outside of the SE. If Orji was smart, he would have understood that Abia is in bad condition so more people are leaving than coming in, especially since the surrounding states and also non-surrounding state are in much much better condition than Abia. With this being said, if(when) the other governors follow suit, he and Abia will be hit worst of all. In fact, as far as the Igbo-speaking states are concerned, I can suspect that alot of the non-indigene civil servants would leave Abia, being that their states are in better condition, but those spot in their states are bring held by Abians. When those states retaliate and send Abians packing, those civil servants sent out by the Abia goverment would gladly go back to their homesome, progressive, and clean states as opposed to Abia.

If Abians were smart, they'd use this action as a way over impeaching T. Orji. Now that it has grabbed the eyes of a non-SE region, the more ammo for them. I hope they are smart.

The stupidityy of Abians. Why are they allowing this man to destroy their state.

What do you expect from a government with no vision and has'nt realy examine the consequences of there action.

Orji needs to vacate that seat urgently.I cannot remember who was arguing that of all the candidates fielded in the last election in Abia,Orji was the best.

any state whose indigene werew sacked from abia need to return "fire for fire"

Absolutely useless without valid means of human and vehicular identification!!!

Waste of time and money, what in the world are they probing? Your people were fired in pursuance of Gov Orji's visionless programme, fire back or simply don't waste state resources on a meaningless probe.

We said this at the begining that this senseless old man has nothing for Abia.This is a man who won the charade called elections while in detention in Lagos courtesy of a better thief,OUK!His 1st dispensation was notorios with internal roads deteriorating,kidnapping reaching a crescendo,robbery at its peak,corruption in high places and all forms of misgovernance.How can a gov as old as TA orji,allow his "not-so-juvenile" son be power drunk?Nothing is working in Abia.What we have is a reign of "TERROR".If u oppose this "Terrorist government",they will chase you out of Abia of kill you.Opposition and functional criticisms strenghten Democracy bt this stupid man doent realise this.Nothing Lasts forever tho!

They are all rogues.

An Islamic scholar that has no qualms with going into a church, is this not what we want to see in Nigeria?

I hope this gets bigger, so that clown of a governor -T.A Orji realizes what a silly move he has made.
Till he leaves office I will continue to expect Abia to go down.

OK IF NA SO, LET ALL THE REMAINING GOVERNORS DISMISS ALL EDOLITES WORKING IN THEIR STATE, SO THAT, THAT USELESS GOVORNOR OF EDO WILL KNOW THE IMPLICATION OF HIS ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TAKING DECISION WITHOUT THINKING, IF HE BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY WHAT WILL HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm am speechless

can u imagine that nonsense from a state governor. and some fools will sit here in Nigeria complaining of racism and sentiments in europe and the USA.
this guys are in there country and dey are being treated like an outcast, na wa oooo
was dis action mentioned in his manifesto or when he was campaigning?
i really pity naija

Since Abians av become too liily livered to take dere destiny into their own hands,other people and state will av to do it for dem.But they shd rememba dat dey will ever remain cowed if dey refuse to seize dis golden opportunity of using legitimate,legal means to assert their right to basic good governance;bc d state has gone to d dogs

That's good. I love that and I hope other State Governments will make a move to dismiss Abia Indigenes. This will show how foolish that man is.

This is going to be a long war betw states involved in this mass transfer /sack.

Orji has not been the best of governors i know,but on the one i support him absolutely,we are ready to absorb any Abian who has been kicked-out wherever.
We didn't start it.

The question is, what job?
Do those guys in the civil service work?
Abians are lili-livered as someone quoted,if it was in your state what could you have done?
U will mention Imo State,that was because the contender himself came down to fight for his mandate and he had the support of his people due to his past track record.
Where else has it happened in this useless country?Rather they wait for their turn to loot,they do not disturb anybody's turn.
Is Edo better?Has Delta with all the militants been able to uproot the Ibori/Uduaghan dynasty?
What of our great nation? PDP just boasted the other day that they will rule the country forever.Not because they are performers but because they know we can't do anything.Please spare Abians.T.Orji is both a demon and senseless.And for those who said Abia will continue to go down,it simply means you don't believe in divine intervention.
Machmaker simply said it all,since engaging them in physical battle will result in your demise,we hv resorted 2 spiritual means.
Time will tell.

OK IF NA SO, LET ALL THE REMAINING GOVERNORS DISMISS ALL EDOLITES WORKING IN THEIR STATE, SO THAT, THAT USELESS GOVORNOR OF EDO WILL KNOW THE IMPLICATION OF HIS ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TAKING DECISION WITHOUT THINKING, IF HE BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY WHAT WILL HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are we reading the same article

These legislators are jobless. What are they probing? Abia did it to every non indigene. Return the gesture with Abia indigenes in Edo State and use your returned indigenes to fill the vacuum. Waste of tax payers money in probing.

^ How can you say that?

Should this very unwise move by the Abia state govt to dismiss non-indigenes remain unchallenged? Someone had better stick it to them and I say kudos to the Edo HoA for doing so.

hassymo5:

OK IF NA SO, LET ALL THE REMAINING GOVERNORS DISMISS ALL[b] EDOLITES[/b] WORKING IN THEIR STATE, SO THAT, THAT USELESS[b] GOVORNOR OF EDO[/b] WILL KNOW THE IMPLICATION OF HIS ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TAKING DECISION WITHOUT THINKING, IF HE BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY WHAT WILL HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you see well? Edo or Abia?

udezue:

The stupidityy of Abians. Why are they allowing this man to destroy their state.

Why are Nigerians still allowing PDP to rule despite its past records of "do or die" politics. Answer please.

daywatcher:

An Islamic scholar that has no qualms with going into a church, is this not what we want to see in Nigeria?

Are we reading this same thread? What has this got to do Islamic scholar and church?

thaddeus85:

Orji has not been the best of governors i know,but on the one i support him absolutely,we are ready to absorb any Abian who has been kicked-out wherever.
We didn't start it.

It is not in best interest of the state cos Abians are more likely to be victimised than ever. How many Abians are under the employ of the State Civil Service? Probably 20% or less. So, your governor is risking the comfortability of thousands of Abians living outside Abia state so that he can pay the minimum wage of 20% of people?
If other governors are to retaliate, they wont only sack Abians from their Civil Service but also increase VAT, income tax and property tax of self-employed Abians. Guy, look at the ripple effect, if all the affected Abians went back to Abia. Your state civil service will be too full that your govt will now have genuine excuse for not paying the minimum wage. Just pray that other governors do not do that otherwise, it would be a loose-loose game for you and your state.

Ten Kobo:

Waste of time and money, what in the world are they probing? Your people were fired in pursuance of Gov Orji's visionless programme, fire back or simply don't waste state resources on a meaningless probe.

jerryben12:

These legislators are jobless. What are they probing? Abia did it to every non indigene. Return the gesture with Abia indigenes in Edo State and use your returned indigenes to fill the vacuum. Waste of tax payers money in probing.

I understand your point of view. But really, the probing will afford the opportunity to know the number of people that were affected and the positions those people were occupying before they were sacked. This will make absorbing them easier and compensating them, more adequate.

I know Oshiomhole will not descend to the level of T.A,Orji as the intellectuall and visionary gap between them is like the distance between the heavens and the earth.Hence, I hadly can see Edo State sacking any Abian in the Edo State civil service.

In any case, what the Abia state government has done is a disgrace!

T orji and his family has brought noting but shame and disgrace to my GOD'S OWN STATE abia. Am not suprise cos his is a product of PDP, His a man without vision. God will remenber us the he did for IMO & AKWA IBOM.

Every state should simply fire and evict indigenes of Abia state from their individual states. For an Abian to own or live in any state apart from theirs, they should be subjected to a series of bureaucracies and made to apply for a resident and work permit.

keep on probing

Abagworo:

Orji needs to vacate that seat urgently.I cannot remember who was arguing that of all the candidates fielded in the last election in Abia,Orji was the best.

i was the one that told u that orji is better than ikonne, but, he was not better than ufomba. during ikonne's days as the commissioner for works, he never ceased from haunting non indigenes in all the major markets in aba.

@Nairalanders
For your information most Abians acquire indigene certificate of the locals in their respective states of residence before applying for civil service jobs hence are more accepted as indigenes than the main locals according to their personal profiles.
My brothers have been doing this and therefore cannot be dismissed

Ngwakwe:

@Nairalanders
For your information most Abians acquire indigene certificate of the locals in their respective states of residence before applying for civil service jobs hence are more accepted as indigenes than the main locals according to their personal profiles.
My brothers have been doing this and therefore cannot be dismissed

What is this nonsense? Anybody can be dismissed from anywhere if other governors suddenly become as insecure as Orji.

The guy screwed up. Nothing surprising about that. The guy is loathed by so many in his own state and this move will only expand his hate-base.

@ thread,

Oshiomhole's government will probably do the right thing and find a way to make them useful to the Edo state government.