Rivers House of Assembly has passed a resolution empowering Governor Nyesom Wike
to sack the board of the State Civil Service Commission accusing them
of breaching the rules and illegally employing workers into the state
Service.
The Rivers lawmakers passed the resolution on Tuesday after grilling the Chairman of the Service Commission, Mr Ngo Martins Yellowe
on the floor of the House based on petitions accusing the Commission of
not passing through due process before employing workers in past three
years.
Yellowe, however, told
lawmakers that the Commission under his leadership obeyed the
constitution and laws guiding employment into the service.
Observers of Rivers politics however see the invitation and quizzing of Ngo Martins Yellowe by the lawmakers as a prelude to the sacking of the Commission appointed by the immediate past administration of Governor Chibuike Amaechi
and also the sacking the civil servants employed three years to date,
especially over 13,200 teachers and others engaged by the immediate past
administration of Governor Chibuike Amaechi.
The invitation of key agencies by the
lawmakers to answer questions based on petitions written by some
aggrieved members of the public on the floor of the House has led to
many rumors.
The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, Chairman Prof Augustine Ahiazu
was invited to answer questions about how local government election was
conducted. Thereafter a resolution was passed mandating Governor Wike
to sack the Commission.
Wike sacked RSIEC the next day.
Similarly, the Rivers State Judiciary
Service Commission suffered same fate after its members were invited to
the floor of the House.
The fears of over 13,200 teachers in the state, over 400 doctors and nurses employed by the former Governor Amaechi is palpable if they fall into the category of workers adjudged to have been wrongly employed into the state civil service.
