By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
As the Anambra State workers join their counterparts in celebrating this year’s International Workers’ Day, the Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Somtochukwu Udeze, has described the state’s workforce as solid partners in progress and urged them to continue to sustain and deepen the existing friendly working environment and industrial harmony between them and Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s Administration.
This was contained in a goodwill message to the workers of Anambra State, signed by the SSA/Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker,ANHA, Emma Madu. Rt. Hon. Udeze noted with satisfaction, what he described as the impressive performance of the Anambra State Workers in various civil service competitions where, he noted, they had continued to outshine their counterparts in the country.
He added that they had done the state proud in both national and international competitions by clinching the first positions, as well as overall best teachers.
The Speaker who commended Governor Soludo for what he termed his pragmatic efforts towards improving the status and welfare of the state’s workforce through massive employment, training and retraining of workers and provision of support to the organized labour in the state, enjoined workers to reciprocate the Governor’s gesture by shunning acts capable of smearing their image and reputation.
He enjoined them to use the occasion of this year’s Workers’ Day to reflect on how to be better and more productive by renewing their efforts through dedication, resilience and innovation.
The Speaker, while commending the State’s Head of Service, Barrister Theodora Igwegbe, and other stakeholders in the public and Civil Service Sector in the State for transforming the system, urged workers to continue to support the present administration, which, he said, had touched them positively and restored their dignity.
