Three hundred and forty out of the four hundred and sixty-one staff of Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic (formerly Abia State Polytechnic), Aba, who were sacked between 2018 and 2021, have received their payments from the Abia State government.
The state government has also promised that the remaining workers would be paid upon completion of their verification.
Governor Alex Otti, who disclosed this while addressing journalists at Government House, Umuahia, said his administration would investigate the circumstances of their dismissal with the aim of recalling those who were unfairly removed from their jobs.
He commended the management of the polytechnic for attracting N2 billion in funding from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund.
On the $125 million Islamic Development Bank loan recently approved for Abia by President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly, Otti dismissed fears of any major risk associated with the facility, noting that foreign exchange instability was the only challenge it might encounter.
Otti further revealed that his administration had spent about N14.43 billion on the retrofitting of 61 public schools as at June 2025, and debunked allegations by an APC group that it squandered N54 billion budgeted for schools in Abia.
He also directed the Abia State Commissioner for Health, Professor Enoch Uche, to commence the construction of an isolation and treatment centre at the Abia State Specialist Hospital, Amachara.
Abia pays 340 disengaged polytechnic workers
