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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has said that it was not on the front burner of his administration to employ new people into the state\u2019s civil service.<\/p>\n

The governor made the disclosure during the monthly interactive session with the media on Thursday in Umuahia.<\/p>\n

According to him, the issue of employment would arise when the government finished dealing with what it met in the civil service.<\/p>\n

He added that there was an embargo that he made, stressing that it was still in place.<\/p>\n

He complained that the number of persons in the civil service was still very high even after verification.<\/p>\n

Otti decried the huge wage bill of about four billion naira for both local government and state on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n

The governor, however, assured that the government was working assiduously on improving and enhancing the pay for the civil servants.<\/p>\n

He said that government was aware that there were quite a lot of people in the service who might not be contributing at optimal levels and would need to do something about it.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cSo, it may not be a priority at this time to open up the doors to bring in new people, except if we have a way of exiting a few people.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you know with the civil service rules, it is not going to be very easy to exit people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are trying to do with the establishment of the Civil Service Commission and resumption of the new Head of Service and new Permanent Secretaries is to ensure that our people are adequately trained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is to enable them operate their skills and perform better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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