Rivers State Governor has been tagged the centre of a soaring tension
in Rivers state as his verdict has left no fewer than 344 newly
recruited staff, including lecturers of the State Polytechnic, Bori
without jobs.
PM News earlier reported that Governor Wike may
likely layoff the 13,200 teachers employed by his predecessor, Rotimi
Ameachi after a resolution passed on Tuesday by the State House of
Assembly gave him the right to do so. It was gathered that Governor Wike
may sack the teachers after the board of the State Civil Service
Commission was accused of breaching rules and illegally employing
workers into the state service.
However, following the right
issued to him (Wike), 344 newly recruited staff were shown the way out
of service after they fell into the category of workers adjudged to have
been wrongly employed, Leadership reports.
Speaking with
newsmen, the public relations officer of the institution, Innocent
Ogbonnaya Nwanwo , said the government also directed the Rector of the
polytechnic, Sir Obianko Worlu Elechi to proceed on compulsory leave.
Nwanwo
said the sack of the newly recruited staff, as well as the directive on
the Rector to proceed on compulsory leave was contained in a directive
sent to the Polytechnic by the State Ministry of Education.
He
said, “The recent employment exercise we had at the Rivers State
Polytechnic, Bori has been cancelled. The reason is that the government
needed to review the process of their employment. The process that
brought in the newly employed people; don’t forget, they have not
started work, has been called off; it has been terminated by the state
government.
“Right now, they don’t have a job here in the Rivers
State Polytechnic. Technically speaking, that is the truth. The Rector
is on leave; he was asked to proceed on leave.” The sack of the 344
newly recruited staff comes days after Governor Wike relieved the
state’s Independent Electoral Commission Chairman (RSIEC), Prof.
Augustin Ahiaozu, of his duties.
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