Rivers State Govt Sack Over 300 Lecturers


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 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".

“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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