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Abia State's governor, Alex Otti, has ordered that all accounts held by the state government and its agencies that are located in banks and other financial institutions within the state and the federation be immediately frozen.
He has also ordered the heads of all the disbanded agencies and parastatals in Abia State to hand over control to those who come after them. He has also abolished the boards of the state's agencies and parastatals.
The directions were given by the governor in a statement released on Monday through his media office and signed by Mr. Ferdinand Ekeoma, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity.
"With this notice, all banks and other financial institutions in the nation are directed to immediately seize from honoring any check, document, instrument, or directive of any kind not expressly approved by or emanating from him," the directive's section said.
In the same vein, Governor Otti "has ordered the immediate dissolution of all boards of the Abia State Government agencies and parastatals and further ordered the chief executives of these organizations to hand over to those next in line to them."
The reporter learned that the news of the firing of the former CEOs of the disbanded boards caused jubilation among the workers of these organizations, particularly those who were due some months' worth of unpaid salaries.
