Rivers
State Governor Nyesom Wike ordered yesterday the sack of 344 lecturers and
others employed for the Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori-Ogoni, the headquarters
of Khana Local Government Area.
The
teachers were employed by the Rotimi Amaechi administration last September.
The
governor also disbanded the Rivers State Road Traffic Management Authority
(TIMA-RIV). His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Opunabo
Inko-Tariah, confirmed TIMA-RIV’s disbandment. TIMA-RIV was put in place by
Amaechi, shortly after he became governor on October 26, 2007.
Public
Relations Officer (PRO) of the polytechnic , Innocent Ogbonna, confirmed the
sack of the lecturers.
Ogbonna
also disclosed that the Rector of the Institution, Obianko Elechi, began his
terminal leave two weeks ago on the instruction of the state government.
Ogbonna
said: “The recent employment exercise we had at the Rivers State Polytechnic,
Bori has been cancelled. The process used in employing them was such that the
government needs to review. As we speak now that process has already been
terminated by the incumbent government.
“As
it stands now, they don’t have any job with the Polytechnic now; that is the
truth, moreso when they are yet to start work before the process was
dissolved.”
On
the sack of 344 lecturers and other workers of the Rivers State Polytechnic,
Bori, Wike’s media adviser said: “Their employment did not follow due process,
done in a hurry and fraught with irregularities. Until the irregularities are
cleared, they remain sacked. The Rector of Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori was
asked to proceed on compulsory leave, because of official misconduct and being
investigated. The rector must be on compulsory leave, pending the outcome of
the investigations.”
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