The sack of 344 lecturers has been approved by Rivers State Governor
Nyesom Wike. The lecturers were sacked alongside 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.
Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the polytechnic , Innocent Ogbonna,
confirmed the sack of the lecturers. They were sacked last Wednesday.
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.”
The Rivers chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), through
its Publicity Secretary, Chris Finebone, condemned the sacking of the
344 lecturers and others, saying Wike should desist from punishing
“innocent Rivers people, in his bid to get at Amaechi”.
APC said: “It is sad to note that Governor Nyesom Wike’s obsession to
conduct a vengeful vendetta and reprisal against every good legacy left
behind by his predecessor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has now
led him to sack 344 lecturers and other staff duly employed by the
authorities of the Rivers State Ministry of Education for the services
of the Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori.
“The employment of the sacked lecturers and staff by the Amaechi’s
administration, which commenced as far back as 2013, followed due
process, as they were painstakingly taken through rigorous examinations
and documentation, including biometric capture, to ease their working
life. The affected lecturers continue to insist that their recruitment
followed due process.
“In a most shocking manner, Wike mindlessly directed, through the
Rivers State Ministry of Education, that the engagement of the 344
lecturers and other personnel be terminated in one fell swoop, without a
thought for what will become of those involved, their families and
dependants.
”To confirm that the Rivers governor was out on a vendetta mission,
he also directed that the Rector of the Polytechnic, Obiaanko Elechi,
should embark on compulsory leave.”
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