The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in Diaspora (AESID) has commended governor David Umahi for recently sacking his over 1000 political aides.
The association, however, called on the governor to recruit young men and women into the state’s civil service.
In a statement signed on Thursday by the AESID’s President, Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, the group also expressed satisfaction with the state government’s decision to share the COVID-19 palliatives to Ebonyians after three months.
“We commend the decision of the Governor to sack his executive, special and technical Assistants who he acknowledged have been grossly inefficient in the discharge of their duties since their appointments.
“However, we urge him (the governor) to immediately recruit youths into the state’s civil service as he has not recruited any single soul into the system since his emergence in 2015.
“Because it is our believe that politics is not a vocation, we rather urge the governor to provide skilled employment opportunities for our teeming youths to teach them how to fish rather than just hand over pieces of fish to them.
“For us, it is very heart-warming that the State government has, after months of delays and obstinate procrastinations, finally decided to share the COVID-19 palliatives to Ebonyians.
“We must, therefore, caution that these items must get to the government’s targeted benefactors which are poorest of the poor in our extremely poor State.
“It should not be hijacked by some political hawks wearing the toga of ‘Honourable’ in the various communities comprising our dear State.”
The association also commended the leadership of the Department of State Security Service for its diligent and disciplinary action which led to the removal of the former director of DSS in Ebonyi following the outcome of investigations on a petition filed against him by a Business mogul and the Executive Director, Economic Strategic Growth and Development Initiative of Africa (ESGADIA) Maazi Obinna Agommuo.
“We wish to call on its men to be more circumspect and thorough by not allowing itself to be used as a pawn in the Chess board of some political actors and shenanigans in the state which we have keenly observed to be the case, particularly in our dear Ebonyi state.
“The falling of the dried leaves should ordinarily serve as a warning to the green ones and we believe the new director, who has since been posted to Ebonyi to replace the former, will not toe the path of his predecessor.”
