Governor Otti Rejigs Executive Council

‎Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has effected insignificant changes successful the Executive Council by swearing successful 2 caller commissioners, reassigning another, and splitting 1 of the ministries.

‎The caller appointees are Trade and Commerce, Salome Obiukwu;  Housing, Chiemela Uzoije; and peculiar advisor to the politician connected Agriculture, Christian Enweremadu.

‎Chaka Chukwumereije, the commissioner for the Ministry of Lands and Housing, which was divided into two, was assigned the portfolio of the Ministry of Lands.

‎Similarly, the erstwhile commissioner for Trade and Commerce, Kingsley Nwokocha, was deployed to the Ministry of Labour and Productivity.

‎After swearing them in, successful Umuahia, the authorities capital, helium said they person truthful overmuch to bash present that “we person gone past the halftime people successful the archetypal word of this administration”.

According to him, the workout is portion of the administration’s strategy of periodically injecting caller ideas to enrich its prime and broaden the scope.

Otti congratulated them connected the appointments and emphasised the request for them to settee into their roles, stressing that “there is practically nary clip for a honeymoon”.

‎”We expect that you volition rapidly invitation and invited enactment from each disposable transmission truthful that it tin deed the crushed running,” helium further said

‎He reminded them of the administration’s zero-tolerance argumentation connected corruption and warned that the authorities volition not hesitate to authorisation those recovered wanting.

‎”We shall not hesitate to bash what has to beryllium done whenever credible grounds of compromise and atrocious behaviour is presented to us.”

‎”You are each required to unrecorded supra committee arsenic nationalist officers with the knowing that this is simply a telephone to serve, not an invitation to a banquet.”

‎He charged them ne'er to get bushed of giving astatine functions similar this. “Our medication has zero tolerance for corruption and practices that detract from the nationalist interest.

‎In a effect connected behalf of the caller appointees, Obiukwu expressed gratitude to him for uncovering them acceptable to serve, assuring that they would discharge their duties creditably.