Draconian Policies: Otti Turning Abians to an Army of Hungry and Angry People - Group
Posted by FN Editor | 10 months ago | 1,510 times
Governor of Abia State, Dr Alex Otti, has been accused of instituting oppressive policies that are subjecting Abians to excruciating hunger and immeasurable suffering.
The Abia Renaissance Movement, ARM, made the accusation in a statement signed by its Coordinator, Comrade Ukachukwu Chinonso, and Secretary-General, Comrade Mrs Maria Nwokoma, and released to the media on Friday in Umuahia the Abia State capital on the heels of a government memo now in the public space wherein MDAs were directed to submit the nominal rolls used in paying salaries for December 2022, as "the payment of June 2023 salary shall be based on the salary modalities used for the payment of December 2022 salary".
The group which "observed that the government memo deliberately left out outstanding salaries for April and May 2023 indicating that only June salary will be paid", accused Otti of pursuing policies of hunger and suffering against Abians and noted that since his assumption of office, the Abia State governor has been "introducing draconian policies that are gradually building an army of hungry and angry people in the state.
"Those lady-keke revenue agents that usually earn a living by standing on the roadside to collect revenue from keke riders on behalf of government through automated means have been rendered jobless, and they are in their hundreds.
"The 'park boys' also in their hundreds across the state have been eased out of the system without any arrangement to integrate them back into society with alternative means of livelihood, and they are waiting in the wings to pounce. And now, the civil servants are beginning to feel the brunt. The list is growing. It is only a matter of time for things to implode," the group warned.
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