Eno threatens to sack commissioners, special advisers over insubordination

Ini Billie, Uyo

Governor Umo Eno has threatened to sack his commissioners and special advisers over insubordination.

Speaking during an inspection visit at the Judiciary Village in Uyo, Eno said any commissioner or special adviser who breaches protocol and abandons him while on duty will immediately be sacked.

The governor who stated that his commissioner and special advisers were to work for 24 hours a day, seven times a week, said they must all escort him back to the office or the lodge at the end of any outside engagement.

“It is wrong for the governor to go on an appointment if nobody else follows him, my commissioners, special advisers, are members of my first 11, and I do not announce where I will go.

“It is mandatory for my commissioners to ensure that they take me either back to the office or to the lodge, and if I stop by anywhere, there can be issues that will be raised. So, the commissioner in charge of that will attend to me.

“A situation where we go to a place, I leave the place, and commissioners take off to what I don’t know, this is a full time job, 247, and so if any commissioner is busy doing their thing, they are not yet ready to be commissioners. I was commissioner myself. I had never left my governor behind.

“Today is the last day I make this statement. I’m doing it publicly. Anytime I leave an event, I stop by anywhere, let the commissioner pray that I don’t look for that commissioner. If I look for that commissioner, the commissioner is not there, the commissioner will lose his or her job right there, and then, this has to stop. We are running a government,” he stated.

The commissioners and special advisers are barely three months in office.