4th June, 2015
Reuben Bojor/Calabar
New Governor of Cross River State, Senator Ben Ayade has turned the heat on the civil servants as he wants them to resume at 8am every working day.
He started the enforcement of punctuality on Monday, his first day at work, when he locked out some of the workers who resumed late. He later pardoned them and said henceforth lateness to work would not be tolerated.
The action which left everyone in the state wondering, was, however welcomed by some while others do not find the development funny.
With four days running, P.M.NEWS noted that gates of ministries are now shut at 8am to enable security personnel check late commers.
On Thursday morning, the main gate to a secretariat located along a major highway was crowded with human and vehicular traffic while checks by security personnel lasted.
On Tuesday Governor Ayade had issued a circular through the Ministry of Information stating the direction of his administration. These include: Executive Council meetings to hold once a month instead of weekly as was the case in the past, the dissolution of the taskforce on illegal logging, sanitary workers to clean up garbage in the night, salaries to be paid on the 25th of every month and lots more.