Soludo said Anambra could no longer afford the loss of 20 per cent of its public life to sit-at-home.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo has said that from next year his administration would no longer allow sit-at-home in the state.
While giving a speech on Wednesday at the 2022 Public Servants Day, Soludo criticised the organiser of the last sit-at-home, Simon Ekpa, as “a mad man in Finland.”
He said it was only in Anambra that the order was not obeyed, adding that by next year, the trend will be completely abolished.
Soludo said Anambra could no longer afford the loss of 20 per cent of its public life to sit-at-home which, according to him, is already becoming part of life in the South-East.
“Eight LGAs were totally taken over at the time we came, they said they were unknown gunmen, no, they are known gunmen born of women and from communities.
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“Last week, one mad man living in Finland said he was declaring sit-at-home, it was only in Anambra that it was not observed. By the time you return next year, we shall stop sit-at-home.
“We must get back to work, working five days in a week, we must take back Anambra from the criminals, we can not build a prosperous Anambra when we work four days, when our children go to school four days, that is a 20 per cent loss in productivity,” he said.
He announced the suspension of Christmas rice to public servants in the state which used to be the case under the immediate past administration of Willie Obiano.
He replaced Christmas rice with monetary gift of N15,000 across board, including for retirees, saying that the review was informed by the inflationary trend which had made the price of 25kg bag of rice to increase from about N8,000 to N21,000 as well as the need to make workers have options of what to buy according to their various needs.
Soludo also announced a salary increment for 10 per cent of workers in the state from next year to cushion the effect of the general inflation which is eroding the value of income.