…as Chairman warns that any staff found wanting in attendance and discharge of his duties would be disciplined accordingly
Anambra State Local Government Service Commission (LGSC) has expressed its determination to reposition the Local Government System positively, by introducing electronic attendance monitoring register that will help to check truancy and absenteeism to work.
Chairman of the Commission, Barr. Vin Ifeanyi Ezeaka, who stated this in Awka during an interactive meeting with Transition Committee Chairmen of the 21 Local Governments in the State, said the move was in line with Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s directive to transform the State Local Government System to greater height.
He noted that the meeting was purposely to collaborate and interact with them on their challenges and how to profer solutions on the way forward.
Ezeaka encouraged the Transition Chairmen to assist the Commission revamp the Anambra State Local Government System for improved productivity by going to work always.
He also urged them to adhere strictly to due process while discharging their duties and promised to ensure that workers are adequately motivated.
He further appealed to the Transition Chairmen to desist from usurping workers schedules by compensating their political friends.
While revealing Board’s plans to soon embark on a strict monitoring tour of the 21 Local Local Governments targeted at fishing out ghost workers, the Chairman warned that any staff found wanting in attendance and discharge of his duties would be disciplined accordingly.
In their separate speaches, Transition Committee Chairman, Ayamelm Hon. Livinus Onyeme and his Njikoka Local Government counterpart, Hon Clement Aguiyi commended the Commission Board for the meeting, describing it as a welcome development.
They demonstrated their readiness to collaborate with the Board to achieve its set objectives and urged the Commission to pay attention particularly to payment of salaries to ghost workers in the Local Government system by the Joint Account and Allocation Committee (JAAC).
The Transition Chairmen also called for government’s urgent attention to improved working condition of workers in the Council Area as well as bring back the Primary Health Care System to the Local Government for improved Health Care delivery.
In a vote of thanks, the member 1 of the Commission, Hon. Azubuike Okoye, thanked the Transition Chairmen and advised them to try as much as possible to minimize conflicts in their various Local Governments and promised that the Commission would soon do proper verification exercise of the Local Government Staff for better results.
He equally noted that the Board is working towards bringing back the lost glory of the Local Government System by reinvigorating the payroll system for adequate control of the ghost workers and effective Service delivery in the Local Government Service.
