The Enugu State government has expressed satisfaction with the level of workers’ attendance to duty especially on Mondays, and assured an increased welfare package for the civil servants.
Governor Peter Mbah, represented by the Secretary to the State government, Prof Chidiebere Onyia who stated this on Monday shortly after touring some of the government seeMinistries, Departments and Agencies to monitor compliance, charged them to be more productive
The Governor had visited Enugu North, Enugu South and Enugu East local government areas.
Other places were the State secretariat, Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board (ENSUBEB), Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB) and the ministry of justice.
The Governor, while warning that the government will soon begin to dock salaries of those who do not come to work before 8 o’clock in the morning especially on Mondays, said it has achieved beyond attendance in the civil servants workforce, hence the need to increase productivity to enhance service delivery by the state government in line with his administration’s disruptive innovation.
Describing education as critical to the government, the governor directed the chairmen of the ENSUBEB and PPSMB to visit the primary and secondary schools in the state to ascertain the quality of teaching and but learning as well as teachers and students attendance especially on Mondays in order to totally erase the mentality of the non existent Sit-at-home among them.
According to the governor, the monitoring exercise to ascertain the level of attendance by state workers continues till the next six months, vowing that laxity can no longer be condoned as modalities have been put in place to measure and track productivity in the state civil service workforce.
While acknowledging that workers attendance to duty in all the offices visited was over 90 percent, Dr Mbah said productivity is an integral part of the present administration as the government plans to increase the Gross Domestic HBD HV Product, GDP, of the state from 4.4 billion dollars to 30 billion
dollars.
