Controversy As Rivers Assembly Sets Date To Screen Commissioners Who Resigned

Controversy was brewing on Monday morning after the Rivers State House of Assembly announced plans to re-screen and re-confirm nine former Commissioners who resigned from the Governor Simi Fubara led government.

The Assembly in a statement on Monday morning said that it would rescreen the nine commissioners who walked away from their job at the peak of the crisis between Governor Fubara and his estranged godfather, Mr Nyesom Wike.

The rescreening is planned to hold on Wednesday according to a statement signed by the Clerk of the house, Mr Emeka Amadi, on Monday in Port Harcourt.

The clerk said the commissioners include Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor (SAN), Commissioner for Works, Dr Des George-Kelly, Commissioner for Special Duties, Emeka Woke, Commissioner for Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Mrs Inime Aguma, Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu.

Others are, the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Chinedu Mmom, Commissioner for Housing, Dr Gift Worlu, Commissioner for Transport, Dr Jacobson Nbina and Commissioner for Environment, Austin Ben-Chioma resigned.

He said they are expected to produce 40 sets of their Curriculum Vitae (CV), photocopies as well as original copies of their credentials to the State House of Assembly, Legislative Quarters (venue for the screening).

However, sources in Port-Harcourt could not confirm that the governor had written a letter nominating the nine persons to the assembly.

GWG.ng gathered that a letter was, however, written to the nine former commissioners to indicate their readiness to be reappointed to the Secretary to the State Government, SSG. It could not be confirmed if the nine affected former commissioners wrote the letter as instructed by the governor.

The reinstatement of the nine commissioners is pillar to the peace pact reached between Governor Fubara and Wike.

However, many stakeholders in Rivers State have called on the governor not to reinstate or even honour the pace pact with Wike on the claim that it was unfavourable to him.

A senior government official contacted on the development could not confirm that the governor had submitted a list of the nominees to the Rivers State House of Assembly as is constitutionally required to warrant the move to screen the commissioners who resigned and as such brining more puzzle into the controversy between Wike and Fubara.

GWG.ng reports that the move by the Rivers Assembly to screen the commissioners who resigned came a day after Mr Wike said that he had fulfilled his part of the agreement with Wike as brokered by President Tinubu.

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