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By Steve Oko
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State swore successful 2 caller Commissioners and a peculiar advisor connected Tuesday, charging them to bring caller energy, commitment, and integrity to the work of the state.
The Governor swore successful Dr. Mrs. Salome Obiukwu arsenic the Commissioner for Trade and Commerce, and Architect Chiemela Uzoije arsenic Commissioner for Housing.
On the different hand, Prince Christian Enweremadu was sworn successful arsenic the Special Adviser to the Governor connected Agriculture.
Speaking astatine the swearing-in ceremonial held astatine the Banquet Hall, Government House, Umuahia, Gov. Otti announced a insignificant furniture reshuffle.
Following the reshuffle, Mr. Kingsley Nwokocha, the erstwhile Commissioner for Trade and Commerce, was deployed to the Ministry of Labour and Productivity arsenic Commissioner.
The Governor announced a divided of the Ministry of Lands and Housing into 2 abstracted portfolios to amended efficiency.
He said that Mr Chaka Chukwumerije, who hitherto headed the Ministry, would present lone beryllium the Commissioner for Lands.
Otti explained that the caller appointments were portion of his administration’s “strategy of periodically injecting caller ideas to enrich the prime and broaden the scope of his administration’s performance.”
He congratulated the trio for scaling done the rigorous information and screening process, and reminded them of his administration’s zero-tolerance argumentation connected corruption.
Otti warned that the authorities would not hesitate to authorisation those recovered wanting.
The Governor charged the caller appointees with delivering, stressing that helium has nary patience for non-performance.
“There is practically nary clip for a honeymoon. We expect that you volition rapidly invitation and invited enactment from each disposable transmission truthful that you tin deed the crushed running.
“You person been recovered to person the important enactment qualities that we question successful our team, and we are gladsome that you honour the telephone to service your authorities astatine this devout infinitesimal successful our history. Thank you for offering to beryllium portion of the caller Abia Project.
“I bash not expect that you volition find it easy, but you person the peculiar vantage of moving with colleagues who volition beryllium consenting to stock their experiences and the steps taken to support their heads supra water.
“Let maine repetition a complaint I volition ne'er get bushed of giving astatine functions similar this: Our medication has zero tolerance for corruption and practices that instrumentality distant from the nationalist till.
“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.
“You person truthful overmuch to do, particularly present that we person gone past the halftime people successful the archetypal word of this administration.”
Otti said his medication had performed good successful assorted sectors since its inception and promised that much achievements would beryllium recorded successful the months ahead.
In a ballot of acknowledgment connected behalf of the recently sworn-in appointees, the Commissioner for Trade and Commerce, Obiukwu, expressed gratitude to the Governor for reposing assurance successful them.
She promised not to fto him and the authorities down.
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