ANAMBRA GOVERNMENT SACKS OVER 1000 STAFF OF STATE WATER BOARD

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BY SUNNY A. DAVID

Anambra State Government has terminated the appointment of over 1000 employees of the moribund State Water Board.

The Water Board was officially shutdown in 2012, and no fewer than 300 staff of the agency had died waiting for their unpaid entitlements from January 2012 till date.

A notice from the State Ministry of Public Utilities dated December 27, 2019, signed by one Rev. Dr. P. C. Amanzechukwu, but reportedly pasted last month at the Headquarters of the agency in Awka, the state capital, said the termination of appointment of the affected employees took effect from 2015.

The State Commissioner for Public Utilities and Water Resources, Engineer Emeka Ezenwanne, who confirmed the development to our correspondent, said they were sacked in line with the Anambra State Water Law 2015 which repealed the edit establishing the agency and other general conduct of their staff.

He said the state government was still providing water to the populace through Urban Water Supply and other sources

Reacting to the development, a retiree of the defunct Water Board, Mr. Hilary Izuagu, said they were still employees of the State Civil Service, adding that the government was owing them arrears of salaries from January 2012 to July 2020 and still counting.

Mr. Izuagu, who urged the Anambra State Government to abide by the provisions in the State Water and Sanitation Law 2015 and other extant laws of the land in dealing with them.

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