Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, has insisted that it was in the
best interest of the state workers to take Thursdays and Fridays off.
He said the policy by his administration was not to ridicule civil
servants but to ensue they engaged themselves in agriculture, since the
workers were not productive on the said two days.
His words; “It has to work because under the present economic
situation we find ourselves, I think the best thing to do is putting
more emphasis on agriculture.
“I am asking the civil servants to just give me three days, just
three days is enough to carry out activities of the state. They should
take the two days and go back to agriculture to help themselves.
‘“We have launched Community Government Council to enable them farm.
We have done many agricultural programmes, and they have to be around to
do it because those Thursdays and Fridays, they use them for burial.
‘’They use those two days for burial activities anyway. And you
hardly see them in the office, so why don’t you give me three quality
days, that’s enough for me and then use the two days for farming? Then
use the Saturday for naming ceremonies and other things. We have to go
that way if Nigeria has to grow.”
On the reported proposed bill by the president to get sweeping
financial powers to tackle economy, Okorocha said: “There’s nothing
wrong with that, in fact, we have to declare a state of economic
emergency right now in Nigeria and all hands must be on deck to fix the
economy of this country.
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