The clerk of Onchan District Commissioners has been sacked after less than a year in the job - and he says he has no idea why.

Michael Morrison , who served for 20 years in the Manx civil service, latterly in the Treasury, before taking up his post in October last year, said: ’At the moment I’ve no idea why I have been sacked.’

Mr Morrison was dismissed following an extraordinary meeting this morning (Monday) called by board chairman Anthony Allen and held in private at the offices of Athol Street advocates Callin Wild.

The meeting was exclusively for commissioners.

Mr Morrison said he was called into the boardroom at the Commissioners’ offices today and told that he was being dismissed.

He said he had not been told why he was being dismissed and was awaiting a letter that would set out the allegations being made against him.

Mr Morrison said he would be consulting a lawyer once he had seen that letter.

He said: ’I will be doing a number of things. This is a job I’ve wanted to do for a long time and a job I think I did quite well and now there is no chance of going back.’

Mr Morrison said he believed this was an issue of ’governance’ and there had been a number of occasions over the last six months where he had offered advice to the board which had not been accepted.

He said he had first learned of the extraordinary meeting when he was contacted by the deputy clerk on a day off last Thursday, his colleague telling him he had been instructed by the chairman Anthony Allen to send out a notice about today’s meeting.