Tension in Ministries, Govt Agencies As Compilation of Non-Indigenes list Causes Stir

Top positions in the Imo State Civil Service may be up for grabs, as top civil servants of Imo origin in the state civil service have began eying top positions occupied by non-indigenes in the state work force.

The new race for positions may not be unconnected with the yet to be explained decision of the state government to get the list of non indigenes in the state work force.

This has increased tension, panic and uneasy calm in the ministries and Government agencies, as non-indigenes in the state workforce take the action as a grand design or a ploy to ease them of the state payroll by the present administration .

Imo Trumpeta learnt that since a circular from the office of newly appointed Head of service, Mrs Nkechi Onumajulu, directed all ministries and agencies to compile list of non-indigenes, tension has not only gripped them, but has also deepened animosity and suspicion between the indigenous workers and their non-indigenes counterparts.

The indigenous workers, especially those who are in the top cadre of the civil service have intensified efforts to replace their colleagues who are not fromImoState.

Most of them (indigenous workers) are in support of the Government’s policy on the basis that if Governor Theodore Orji ofAbiaStatecould sack non Abians in theAbiaStateworkforce, such measure should be replicated in Imo.

Several interpretations have been attached to the directive of compilation of list of non-indigenous in the state.

Workers, especially non-indigenous who preferred anonymity informed our correspondent that the desire by the State Government has never been practiced in the history of the state, adding that the non-indigenes list may not be unconnected with “Abia Style” where the Governor, Theodore Orji sacked non-indigenes.