The Resident Electoral Commissioner in charge of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Ebonyi State chapter, Prof. Godswill Obioma on Tuesday warned some erring Staff in the Commission to either resign or face immediate sack.
Prof. Obioma said that the erring staff should act in accordance with the rules and regulations governing the operations of their work in the State.
The REC made this known in Abakaliki shortly after inspecting some INEC offices in the State, expressing dissatisfaction and sadness over the poor attitude to work by some INEC officers in the 13 council areas of the state.
He made it clear that he had come to make sure that members of staff were committed to their duties.
Obioma also paid a surprised visit to the Electoral body’s offices in three Local Government Areas of Abakaliki, Ohaukwu, and Ishielu was dissatisfied with the situation he met on ground in the areas he visited.
The REC further expressed anger over the filthiness of some offices and the environment which was already overgrown by bushes even as he discovered high level of laxity on the part of some staff towards carrying out the ongoing voter registration exercise in the state.
The Professor flared up when he discovered that those who came to revalidate their Voter’s Card where made to queue in the bush at the backyard in the scorching sun and ordered them to come inside the building and be treated like humans.
“The residents’ complaints are part of what I am here to resolve. As you heard them, they lamented that the staff here are not serious. And that is what I’m here to correct. In fact, if you don’t shape in, we shape you out,” he declared.
It was gathered that in less than one week of his arrival, he had held meeting with about 250 members of staff of INEC in the state where he lectured them on the need to domesticate the vision and mission of the electoral body to the grassroots.
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