Oshiomhole Sacks Perm Secs Over Lateness

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has sworn in 18 new permanent secretaries out of the 20 appointed into various ministries in the State and reversed the appointment of the remaining two Permanent Secretaries on the grounds that they came late to the swearing-in ceremony.

The appointees were expected to have been seated at 12 noon for the ceremony, which was billed for 1pm. The event however kicked off at 12:30pm after the Governor arrived the venue at 12:23pm, but only 18 would-be Permanent Secretaries were seated at the time.

The other two arrived during the ceremony but the governor refused to swear them in. All efforts and pleas made to the governor to swear them in fell on deaf ears, as the governor stood by his principle.