Governor Nyesom Wike is set to sack 13,000 workers employed by his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi. This comes as Rivers House of Assembly passed a resolution empowering the Governor to sack the board of the State Civil Service Commission accusing them of breaching the rules and illegally employing workers into the state Service.

The Rivers lawmakers passed the resolution on Tuesday after grilling the Chairman of the Service Commission, Mr Ngo Martins Yellowe on the floor of the House based on petitions accusing the Commission of not passing through due process before employing workers in past three years.

Yellowe, however, told lawmakers that the Commission under his leadership obeyed the constitution and laws guiding employment into the service.


Observers of Rivers politics however see the invitation and quizzing of Ngo Martins Yellowe by the lawmakers as a prelude to the sacking of the Commission appointed by the immediate past administration of Governor Chibuike Amaechi and also the sacking the civil servants employed three years to date, especially over 13,200 teachers and others engaged by the immediate past administration of Governor Chibuike Amaechi.

The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, Chairman Prof Augustine Ahiazu was invited to answer questions about how local government election was conducted. Thereafter a resolution was passed mandating Governor Wike to sack the Commission.Wike sacked RSIEC the next day.
Similarly, the Rivers State Judiciary Service Commission suffered same fate after its members were invited to the floor of the House.
The fears of over 13,200 teachers in the state, over 400 doctors and nurses employed by the former Governor Amaechi is palpable if they fall into the category of workers adjudged to have been wrongly employed into the state civil service.




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If wrongly employed, fine. But if not, dude should just take a chill pill and stop increasing the number of unemployed Nigerians

Now this is going to far. This man wants to render a whole 13,000 people jobless
This man will sack 13200 teachers
400 doctors... Why? Cos they were employed by ameachi?
From the article I don't think this is because they are not qualified.
Anyone that supports this is a big mofo. So ameachi shld not employ anyone through his years as governor?

Wike is a big foool is it because they were employed by ameachi let him replace the 13000 workers with his family


Mumu governor

If he his man enuff,he should try it.. we will occupy dat government house.. idiot

vecman22:
If he his man enuff,he should try it.. we will occupy dat government house.. idiot

Legally i don't think he can do that actually.
I have never liked the guy for anything.

I do not think he will ever do that
1. He will render 13,000 (about 50,000 including their family that benefit from the salary) cash stripe
2. He will be termed not friendly with non indigenes just as Ameachi is been termed as traitor
3. He will surely become unpopular which the opposition can easily use against him

I think he only want to remove Ameachi spy and loyalist from his government in preparation for Legal battle ahead.

Wine isn't stupid. very sure he won't do that. Amechi and his media outfits should stop peddling rumours that can't come to pass

hmmmmmn...when he started messing things up most of u dey hail am....

GLO IS THE BEST NETWORK....

Wike, abeg no do oooo.

This message feels false..

But if true, all wike should do is ask for the teachers and doctors to reapply.


Am sure he know's the repercussion of saking that much people

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