Local authorities in Health and Education in Rivercess County have reportedly ordered scores of public workers who abandoned their assignments for the ongoing the Biometric Voter’s Registration (BVR) temporary staffers training be removed from the entire process.
Since Monday, April 10, the National Elections Commission (NEC) has embarked on a week long training exercise for new recruits for the BVR commencement in the remaining nine counties in preparations for the start of what it termed as the Phase II which run from Tuesday, April 21 to Thursday, May 11, 2023.
This exercise will be held in Lofa, Bong, Nimba, Grand Gedeh, River Gee, Maryland, Grand Kru, Sinoe and Rivercess and unlike the phase I, this phase will be held for four weeks which comprise of three weeks of actual work and 1 week for report compilation, retrieval of equipment and payment of those hired for the exercise.
According to the report, due to the delays in government’s salary, scores of public health workers like doctors and nurses as well as physician assistants and teachers along with schools’ administrators abandoned their respective assignments for NEC’s BVR temporary wage.
However, at the Cestos administrative building on Tuesday, April 12, authorities from the Ministries of Education and Health stormed the BVR training ground and demanded that all public teachers and public health workers who reportedly left their respective assignments for NEC’s one month US$300 leave the room and resume work in their respective facilities.
The report said the local authorities threatened that any health worker or teacher who failed to return to their assignment will be removed from the government’s wage bill permanently.
