Wike’s One Year Anniversary …Committee Starts Work, Friday …

A 16-man Committee has been set up by the Rivers State Government ahead of Governor Nyesom Wike’s one year anniversary next month.
The State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr. Austin Tam-George made the disclosure on Monday shortly after a State Executive Council Meeting in Port Harcourt.
The Committee, he stated, “will ensure that every single effort of this administration is covered and presented to the people to see”.
He added that the Committee will be inaugurated and commence duties on Friday.
Tam-George said the vision of the Wike administration is service delivery and to better the lot of Rivers people.
Meanwhile, the Wike administration has rehabilitated and constructed over 120-kilometre of roads across the state.
Also, about six-kilometre distance of roads have so far been rehabilitated by the State Road Rehabilitation Agency.
The State Commissioner for Information and Communications while making the figures public shortly after the state executive council meeting on Monday said, “Governor Wike has emphasised that every road in the state has to be fully functional”.
He quoted the state governor as commending work done by the Road Rehabilitation Agency to ensure that roads in the state wear new look, and are given a facelift all the time.
Meanwhile, the Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr Ipalibo Harry Banigo, has called on civil servants and the organized labour in the state to co-operate with the state government in fishing out ghost workers in the state’s payroll.
Banigo, in a statement through her Press Secretary, Paul Damgbor, said the on-going biometric exercise for civil servants is intended to ascertain the real workers and check leakages in the salary vouchers inherited from the past administration.
She noted that government cannot continue to waste resources which could be used to create jobs to the teeming unemployed youth and build infrastructure for the overall good of Rivers people.
The deputy governor, who lauded the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike for according priority to regular payment of workers’ salary, urged the people to report fraudulent practices by public servants to appropriate authorities for necessary action, as the state government was committed to prudent management of resources and zero tolerance to corruption.
Banigo, therefore, advised civil servants to take the on-going biometric exercise seriously and be captured in the process as those that fail to show up would be regarded as ghost workers.