In his first two weeks in office as the Benue governor, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, as far as media reports go, has done four major things: He made a few appointments, mainly of his personal aides namely the chief of staff, principal private secretary, and chief press secretary; as well as the secretary to the state government and head of the civil service. Second, he has ordered the dissolution of boards of all extraministerial departments, and agencies.
Third, and most recently nullified all recent appointments into the state civil service made by the outgone administration from May 2022 to date.
Lastly, he has been trading words with the opposition PDP and his predecessor, accusing them of looting the state whereby not even a single official vehicle was left for him as all were taken away, also that he not inherited an empty treasury but inherited 187.56 billion naira in debts. Someone prayed on social media that he hopes with the the changes in the civil service, the sons and daughters of ‘nobodies’ who know no one would be employed based on merit in a fair and transparent process. My response was that we pray too much on basic, pedestrian issues. This prayer would’ve been needless had Alia simply handled it better, and answered the questions that would naturally be on people’s minds.
There isn’t one single mention on these, only a statement that reads like a military order with repeated uses of ‘forthwith’, ‘with immediate effect’, etc. It’s all an appearance. All puff with no substance. How would the adjustments be made for the schoolchildren to not miss out on anything? I believe that were this considered and the teachers replaced during the holidays for instance, nobody would have felt any inconvenience nor would it have been late too late a change to make the changes.
The outgone governor has replied to Alia that taking along all vehicles is the tradition that has been in place since 1999, as all his predecessors did same; that the last state executive council approved their doing so, and so it’s perfectly legal and lawful, and that the usual tradition is for the outgoing regime to procure vehicles for the incoming one, but Alia had declined gesture, preferring to procure vehicles suiting his taste upon his inauguration.
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