BY CHIDI NKWOPARA

OWERRI –  Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has ordered dismissal of officials of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, in Ehime Mbano local council area of the state for resisting deployment to his fourth-tier of government.

Okorocha has equally warned that he would not hesitate to dismiss any worker that refuses posting to the controversial fourth-tier government.

This came as the state branch of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, dragged the governor to the Industrial Arbitration Panel over “the controversial policies of his administration as it affects workers”.

Okorocha, who read the riot act during a meeting with political office holders, also warned that the same fate awaited any person or group of persons inciting others in whatever guise against embracing the fourth-tier policy.

“Any civil servant that refuses posting will be summarily dismissed from service, including those that may hide under labour unionism to frustrate the smooth take-off of the fourth tier government in the rural communities,” Okorocha warned.

Meanwhile, the Industrial Arbitration Panel has had its first sitting but the state government was neither represented at the sitting nor wrote to explain its absence.

The State NLC Secretary, Comrade Augustine Chilakpu, promised that labour would exhaust all options in industrial dispute negotiations before going for the last option.