RSG Names Committee Against Ghost Workers

The Rivers State Government has constituted a Special Committee to get rid of ghost workers in its service.
The State Commissioner for Employment Generation and Empowerment, Dr Ipalibo Harry, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt yesterday.
The commissioner also said that plans had been concluded to recruit 2,000 graduate engineers to assist in the supervision of road projects in the state.
“As I speak to you, we have put together a programme for graduate engineers for the supervision of road projects of the Ministry of Works.
“This programme is yet to be given final approval but we are midway into it where about 2,000 graduate engineers will be engaged by the Ministry of Works to join in the supervision of construction’’, he said.
He said that early this year, the government recruited 13,000 teachers to boost its education programme.
Harry said government had assisted in the creation of 35,000 new jobs for the people in the past five years.
The commissioner explained that the bulk of the jobs were created in agriculture, health and education sectors.
He also said the Songhai Farms in Bunu-Tai, fish farms; Risonpalm and Banana Plantation had provided jobs for the youths.
Harry said that the state’s Sustainable Development Agency and the Ministry of Employment Generation and Empowerement had organised a job fair to expose the employment potentials of graduates from the state.
He said the aim of the fair was to select 600 persons across all disciplines to meet potential employers on August 20 for employment.