Govt. To Revisit IAUE Employment Soon.

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, says he cancelled employment process at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Rumuolumeni Community, due to intolerable irregularities, will be revisited and the process restarted.

This is as he assured that a new governing council was now in place to oversee the process and ensure elimination of the irregularities that hampered the previous process.

Governor Fubara gave the assurance at the gates of Government House in Port Harcourt on Monday when he received some protesters who came to register their grievances as victims of the botched process.

The Governor, who was represented by the Head of Rivers State Civil Service, Dr George Nwaeke, told the protesters that it is not correct that the Fubara-led administration had neglected them or abandoned the process.

The governor explained that the employment process was cancelled because what was done contravened the initial approval given to the institution.

Governor Fubara said the management of the institution was directed, based on their request, to employ only 867 staff with 420 of such persons being academic staff, but regretted that the institution employed 1,900 persons with only 123 being academic staff, which was grossly unacceptable.

Governor Fubara urged the protesters to organize themselves properly so that it will be easy to interface with them when the employment process recommences because only qualified persons will be employed within the stipulated number.

Speaking on behalf of the protesters, Valentine Kponi Barinedum, said they applied for the advertised positions, duly interviewed, engaged and eventually worked for nine months.