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From Tony John, Port Harcourt
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has nullified the 10, 000 jobs in the State Civil Service approved by his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, saying a fresh recruitment process would be carried out.
Former Governor Wike had at the twilight of his administration, approved the immediate employment of a number of youths to fill existing vacancies in the state’s workforce.
Meanwhile, Fubara during an interactive session with stakeholders in Port Harcourt on Friday, said he cancelled the recruitment because the process was flawed and compromised by those entrusted to handle it.
The governor stated that a more transparent process would commence soon, and expressed dissatisfaction that when the names of those selected from the 23 local government areas were scrutinized, they were people smuggled in for political patronage.
The governor, while responding to a question, stated: “I know that is the first question, the 10,000 jobs. When we came on board, we already had details that were submitted to us from the 23 local government areas.
“You will agree with me that when we subjected those names to proper scrutiny, most of those names, in fact, 60 per cent of those names were overage. They were names that people brought for political patronage.
“But, what we are talking about today is employment for the future. I, personally after the analysis of those things, said, ‘How will you employ somebody who is 52 years old as a civil servant? How many years is the person going to work before retirement?”
