-Say Level 9 Teachers Who Went For Promotion Interview In Early 2024 Not Given Promotion Letters Yet
-Accuse Gov Eno of Using State Funds For Charity While Forcing Workers to Forfeit Their Entitlements
Workers in Akwa Ibom State Civil Service have described the recent ban on masquerades by the state governor, Pastor Umo Eno, while condoning the delay of workers’ promotion letters and entitlements, as an act of hypocrisy.
The workers, who spoke to the Guide Newspaper, on anonymity, disclosed that over 3,000 teachers on level 9 that went for their promotion interviews in early 2024 are yet to receive their promotion letters, adding that the affected workers have been forced to forfeit nearly two years of their level 10 and the benefits like promotion arrears.
“It is almost two years since we went for promotion interview and till now, we have not received our promotion letters. That is nearly two years of our labour gone because the promotion arrears will be reduced to just very few months when the letters are finally released”, one of the aggrieved teachers told our reporter. “We are labouring so hard for this state but the government keeps cheating us heartlessly”.
He continued; “It is an act of hypocrisy for the governor to ban masquerades from the streets but condone the continuous delay of workers’ promotion letters and entitlements. The damage that this delay is causing to thousands of workers and their families is far worse than what masquerades do on the streets.
“People are demoralised, depressed, and getting poorer. Workers are living in debt because they are not being paid what they are due, while the governor is using the state money to do charity. If he’s not spending over 1 billion naira to impress job seekers, he is building a house of 100 million naira for a musician. But those who are working daily to keep this state going are forced to forfeit their entitlements”, he concluded.
Other members of the group who spoke separately to our reporter, expressed their displeasure with how unfairly the governor has treated them.
