Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state has again locked out workers of their offices for reporting late to the government house, Calabar.
According to Vanguard, Governor Ayade took the decision after arriving at the government house around 7.33am and found that most workers were yet to report for work.
Governor Ayade locks out aide, others for reporting late to work
A source said the governor arrived at his office at about 7.20am to find the entire place desolated as most workers were yet to show up in their offices, including cleaners.
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This infuriated the governor as he instructed his security aides to shut the gate at 7.33 am.
A security aide said: “His Excellency arrived here at about 7.20 am and the entire place was like a ghost city and he went into his office and after about fifteen minutes most of the people he needed to work with were not yet on their seats so he asked us to lock the gate.”
Governor Ayade locks out aide, others for reporting late to work
The source said the governor arrived his office early, because he was scheduled to host a team from the Cross River Basin Development Authority at 9.00am, and the Managing Director of First Bank at 12.00pm.
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It was gathered that those locked out included Mrs Tina Banku Agbor, the secretary to state government and other principal political office holders.
ZENITHBLOG.com recalls that in 2015, Ben Ayade in his first day at work, decided to lock out workers, who reported late to the government house, Calabar.
Some months later, the governor ordered that three commissioners to be locked out when he paid an unscheduled visit to their ministries.
Last year, Governor Ayade suspended the Commissioner for Water Resources, Ntufam Gabe Odu Ojie, indefinitely for reporting to work late.
He also suspended indefinitely was the Managing Director of Water Board Limited, Dr. Oju Igile,
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