‘No Plan To Sack Media Workers’

Rivers Government has no plan to sack workers in the on-going restructuring of its media organisations, Mrs Ibim Semenitari, the state Commissioner of Information and Communication, has said.

Semenitari gave the assurance, yesterday in Port Harcourt during a meeting with union leaders of the state government-owned media organisations.

She explained that the re-structuring was aimed at making the media organisations stronger, adding that rather than sack workers, government would continue to accord priority to the establishments.

The commissioner advised the management of the media organisations to strive to update and review their performances to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

She said her office was poised to improve the condition of service of workers as well as the existing facilities to enable the workers to maximise their potential.

“The state belongs to all of us and as stakeholders, we must endeavour to improve on what we have,” Semenitari said.

She challenged the workers to make the establishments strategic through hard work and dedication to duty, saying that any media outfit could die naturally if its workers failed to make it profitable and dynamic.

Mr James Kogah, Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Service Employees (AUPCTRE), commended the commissioner for her explanations and promised to inform members of the union accordingly.

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), AUPCTRE, and the Radio Television and Theatre Workers Union (RATTAWU) were represented at the meeting.