Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has announced the cancelation of 10, 000 jobs in the State Civil Service approved by the immediate past government of Nyesom Wike.
The Governor made this known during an interactive session with stakeholders in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
However, he said a new recruitment process would be carried out in no distant time.
Fubara queried the process that was used in recruiting the 10,000 into the workforce.
He claimed it wasn’t transparent and a number of over-aged individuals were smuggled in for political patronage.
“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 over-aged. 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?” Fubara queried.
Recall, Wike had approved the immediate employment of a significant number of youths, with the aim of filling the existing vacancies in the state’s workforce before the expiration of his tenure.
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