Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has
forced eleven permanent secretaries in the
state civil service into retirement owing to
health related issues, Daily Post reports.
Samuel Ortom
According to the commissioner for
information and orientation, Ode Ageh,
shortly after an emergency state executive
council meeting on Tuesday, November 10,
at the Peoples House in Makurdi, the state
capital, the directive was with immediate
effect.
The commissioner noted that adding to the
health reason for the retirement, the
government also considered their ages and
performances in the civil service.
The permanent secretaries who were
affected in the forced retirement are Stev
Ato, Terna Iorkyaa, Joseph Okor, Akperan
Anunne and Eugene Ivase.
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Others are Godwin Ejembi, Shabu B., Ade
John, Asen Sambe, Tor Jun and Terlumun
Tsegba.
According to the dismissal, Ageh also said
that even vehicles were recovered from
officials of the past administration of the
immediate past governor, Gabriel Suswam.
He however warned that those who still
keeping properties belonging to the
government of the state should endeavour
to return them so as to avoid prosecution.
Meanwhile, Gabriel Suswam, the embattled
erstwhile governor of Benue state, had
recently lamented what he described as
misinformation from the All Progressives
Congress during the 2015 general elections
which alleged that he stole the state’s funds
meant for workers’ salaries.
According to Daily Post, Suswam who
governed the state from 2007 to 2015, an
administration that has been tagged the
worst in the history of the country, denied
stealing the state’s money during his eight
years in office.
Despite the denial by his predecessor,
Governor Ortom still insisted that his
predecessor, Suswam, must face trial to
account for his stewardship while in office
as governor for eight years.
He said that Suswam left an empty treasury
when he left office in May 29 saying that
the people of the state are interested to
know how these monies grew wings. https://www.naij.com/633899-governor-ortom-fired-11-permanent-secretaries.html

We truthfully gave that man the mandate, but from the look of things now...

No regrets tho.