Resolution of Executive Council meeting…ratified the award of several road projects
The Abia State Executive council met on Wednesday 15th February, 2012 in the Executive Council chamber, under the chairmanship of His Excellency; Governor T. A. Orji, and, as usual took very far-reaching decisions that will positively touch on the lives of the good people of God’s Own State.

SECTION A:

1. Council adopted report on phase I of staff salary verification exercise in the state civil service which uncovered unidentified 558 staff in her payroll, amounting to a total of #20, 098, 601.22.

2. Council frowned at the recalcitrance of electronics dealers at Aba who are still carrying on with their trade in residential areas of the Enyimba city and insisted that such traders must have to comply with the laws of the land.

3. Council observed with pain that discipline in the state civil and public services was been eroded by the nonchalant attitude of senior civil and public officers to punctuality and regularity, and consequently directed the state’s Head of Service to issue a circular that shall be mandatory on civil and public servants in the state sign the attendance register on assumption of duty in the morning and also sign out at the end of the day’s work at 4p.m.

4. Council noted with consternation the inexplicable and, certainty unacceptable habit of few Permanent Secretaries who are fond of moving from one Ministry or Department to another with staff they cunningly label indispensable staff and unequivocally directed the Head of Service to make sure the ugly habits stops immediately.

5. Council, in its determination to resuscitate the N.N.P.C depot at Osisioma, directed that a meeting should be arranged between His Excellency and Traditional Rulers from Ukwa-West in order to further address the problem of vandalization of oil pipelines and illegal bunkering in the area, next week.

6. Executive council observed with dismay that project vehicles given to Ministries, Departments and Agencies are no longer serving the purpose for which they are given, and accordingly, directed the S.S.G to direct Heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies to give detailed account of the vehicles.

7. Council expressed a deep sense of loss and regret over the death of the former Governor of defunct Eastern Region of Nigeria; Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, and urged Abians to troop to Enyimba International Stadium Aba enmass on 28th of February to pay honour to the late leader and hero of the Igbo Nation, whose body will be lying in state at the stadium and equally attend the burial on the 2nd of March, 2012 at Nnewi. culled from http://www.abiastate.gov.ng/2012/02/resolution-of-executive-council-meeting/