Governor Francis Nwifuru | File Image
By Valentine Amanze
Uncertainty beclouds Ebonyi State, as Governor Francis Nwifuru suspends a total of 81 government officials including the Attorney General of the state.
Nigeria News Flight gathered on Monday that among those affected in the wave of suspension are the Attorney General, 25 Commissioners, 22 permanent secretaries, including 14 senior special assistants, and 24 special assistants.
The officials were said to have failed to attend an important government function.
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The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Monday Uzor, confirmed the development in a statement on Monday.
He said that the commissioners and other political appointees were to proceed on a one-month working suspension with immediate effect, without salary payment.
The suspended commissioners are: Attorney General, Works, Finance, Information, Rural Development, Education, Agriculture, Water Resources, Commerce and Industry, Environment, Health, Arts and Culture, among others.
It was also gathered that the governor directed that the affected commissioners and other political appointees were prohibited from signing any official document within one month of their working suspension.
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