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Investigations by “Precious Eze’s Blog” has revealed some of the reasons behind the sack of the Commissioner for Labour and Productivity in Imo State, Chief Ford Ozumba by the state governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma. This platform gathered that the sack may not be unconnected with the misunderstanding between the State Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, which has to swallow the Commissioner for Labour and Productivity.
Information
at our disposal has it that the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, led by Comrade
Joe Ajaero, had declared a strike action in the State over alleged interference
in their election. The Union claims that their Congress was disrupted by
Security operatives on the orders of the State Government, and in the process,
some workers were injured, but the Government vehemently denied any such
interference, saying that Security men were there to maintain peace when a
serious misunderstanding broke out between the two contestants to the office of
the Chairman of the State NLC.
This,
it was gathered led to the declaration of a strike action, without notice, for
which the Government accuses Ajaero of ulterior motives. While the crisis
brewed, and almost boiled over, the now sacked commissioner was away in Abuja
where he accompanied the Senator – elect for Imo West, Osita Izunaso, for
the collection of his Certificate of Return, not on official duty or assignment, but to escort someone to Abuja.
The
absence of Ford Ozumba infuriated the Governor when he heard that the
Commissioner in charge of Labour in the state was not on duty to handle the bad
situation such as what happened, so he had to sack him over negligence of
duty.
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