Umahi orders Ebonyi civil servants to resume work

Ebonyi State civil servants have been ordered back to their duty posts by the state Governor, David Umahi.

The affected civil servants, from grade level 1 to 10 have been off work after the dreaded COVID-19 disease pandemic broke out in Nigeria.

According to a statement on Wednesday by the Head of Service in the state, Dr. Chamberlain Nwele, the workers are to resume work on the 4th of May, 2020.

This is coming less than 24 hours after the state recorded its second confirmed COVID-19 positive case.

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Nwele said in the statement: “The civil servants are reminded to apply all COVID-19 precautionary measures as directed by the government and stipulated guidelines by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).”

It would be recalled that Governor Umahi had on April 28, lifted the ban on motorcycle operation and the dusk-to-dawn curfew across the state.

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