Ebonyi Govt sacks 48 state security outfit members, suspends 27

The Ebonyi State Government, on Friday, announced the sack of 48 members of the state’s security outfit, Neigbourhood Security Watch, and suspended 27 members of the outfit.
Dr Kenneth Ugbala, Governor David Umahi’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Internal Security, made the announcement, noting that their offences included non performance and absenteeism from duty.
Ugbala said that the affected persons consisted mainly of the newly recruited “Batch B’ members of the outfit who were expected to justify the huge remuneration on them by the government.
“They failed to meet the seven days out of one month compliance on attendance and for the fact that we don’t condone laziness in the state’s workforce, they had to be sacked.
“We gave them several warnings to change their attitude to work but they failed and we have commenced the process of replacing them,” he said.
The governor’s aide noted that those suspended did not measure up to two weeks of attendance compliance required of them.
“We hope that they will learn their lessons and live up to expectations or they will join those already sacked.
“No job opportunity is too small to be abused as they prayed to get it and should therefore be serious with it.
“`Seven out of the 48 sacked members of the outfit were from the Batch A set, while the rest are from the Batch B,” he said.
He directed all the sacked personnel to immediately return all the outfits’ properties in their possession, while those on suspension should face the disciplinary committee of the outfit.