C’River Lifts 25-year Old Employment Embargo

Cross Rover State Governor, Bassey Otu, has lifted the 25-year old embargo on employment into the State Civil Service.

The State Commissioner for Information, Dr. Erasmus Ekpang, disclosed this in an interview with The Tide’s source in Calabar on Wednesday.

While noting that the last time mass employment took place in the service was in 1999, Ekpang said 2,000 people will be recruited in the first phase.

He said the recruitment exercise, which will be with immediate effect, will be carried out across all the Ministries, Department, and Agencies (MDAs).

“The immediate past administration actually tried to employ, but when the present government came in, lots of flaws were discovered in that exercise.

“As we speak, the State Civil Service is almost depleted and we are indeed happy that the Governor has considered it necessary to recruit at this point in time”, he stated.

On if the state will pay the N70,000 minimum wage, the Commissioner said, “that will be considered at the appropriate time”.

In another development, Governor Otu has commended the people of the state for not participating in the nationwide “Hunger Protest” which began on August 1.

He specifically commended youths for deeming it fit to allow peace reign in the state .