The lingering political crisis in Rivers State took a new turn on Friday following the announcement by Governor Siminalayi Fubara that his administration cancelled 10, 000 jobs in the State Civil Service approved by the immediate past government.
The employments were approved by his predecessor and the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.
The governor during an interactive session with stakeholders in Port Harcourt, on Friday, stated that a fresh recruitment process would be carried out soon.
DAILY POST recalls that before his tenure elapsed, 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.
But Fubara said the process of the recruitment was flawed and compromised by those handling it.
The governor explained that when the names of those selected from the 23 local government areas of the state were scrutinized, they were people smuggled in for political patronage, saying they were over-aged.
“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.