{"id":13478,"date":"2014-12-18T18:11:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T18:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13478"},"modified":"2014-12-18T18:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T18:11:30","slug":"xmas-rice-scandal-rocks-imo-ministry-as-workers-lament-over-commissioners-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13478","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Rice  Scandal Rocks  Imo Ministry,  As Workers  Lament Over  Commissioner\u2019s  Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/state-sec..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/state-sec..jpg\" alt=\"state sec.\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/state-sec..jpg 599w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/state-sec.-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFew days ago, Trumpeta wrote that Christmas activities have been grounded in the State Ministries, Parastatals and Agencies because of no payment of salaries, especially the November salaries with which the workers make up their co-thrift savings.<br \/>\nA visit to the state secretariat now would showcase beehive activities as workers are busy with smiling faces sharing food items which money they have been saving since January preparatory to this period.<br \/>\nBut Trumpeta can authoritatively inform you that staff of block One in the State Secretariat are not smiling because their commissioner has almost carried away the bags of rice meant for the staff this Christmas.<br \/>\nSources informed Trumpeta that this particular ministry which bye product has to do with physical exercises had budgeted 90 bags of rice to the delight of about 74 workers that make up the ministry for Christmas. As they expected at least a bag each.<br \/>\nBut the faces of the workers suddenly changed when it was discovered that the helmsman alone took 10 bags while the Permanent Secretary took 7 bags leaving officers from levels 12-15 with 2 bags each. Other categories of workers are to get a bag each in groups of 4, 5 or 6.<br \/>\nThe source said even the orderlies of the helmsmen are included in the staff share instead of from the helmsman&#8217;s supply. Some of the workers who spoke to our reporter at the secretariat said the \u201coga\u201d has even instructed his orderlies to deal with any staff who agitates over the rice sharing formular.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, at the ministry of finance, the story is a different kettle of fish altogether. The staff said that their commissioner was magnanimous enough to release some of his own share just to ensure that at least every worker got a bag of rice for Christmas.<br \/>\nSome workers who reacted to this development wondered when the common man would receive fair treatment in the hands of the powers that be in the state.<br \/>\nMeanwhile any moment from now, the rescue mission government led by Owelle Rochas Okorocha will commence the distribution of Christmas goodies to the rural communities through the CGC.<br \/>\nA source hinted that the Governor has sat with CGC officials over the Christmas gifts.<br \/>\nThe Governor will also extend his gifts to Imo workers at the appropriate time.<br \/>\nIn a similar development, the Deputy Governor of the state, Prince Eze Madumere has treated staff of his department to lavishing gifts. Reports say he extended similar gesture to his home community Achi Mbieri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago, Trumpeta wrote that Christmas activities have been grounded in the State Ministries,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Xmas Rice Scandal Rocks Imo Ministry, As Workers Lament Over Commissioner\u2019s Action -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=13478\" \/>\n<meta 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