Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday said his administration will recruit 3,000 computer literate graduates to stimulate the workforce.
The governor, who described the state’s workforce as obsolete, added that the new workers would be retrained by experts in the computer system and posted across ministries to enhance performance and capacities of the civil service.
Okorocha, who addressed reporters in Owerri, the state capital, noted that majority of the state’s civil servants were not computer literate and had not shown the determination to improve on their capacities and service delivery.
According to him, his administration is no longer comfortable with workers who cannot carry out their daily tasks on the computer when every government business in being computerised.
Okorocha said the government would confirm the appointments of the teachers recruited under the Youths Must Work Programme two years ago.
He said: “All the teachers recruited under the Youths Must Work Programme will be confirmed, while fresh 3,000 computer literate graduates will be recruited to beef up the capacity of the civil service. We are also going to begin the payment of pensioners soon.”