Recall sacked workers now, TUC tells Wike

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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State

Emmanuel Thomas, Lagos

June 22, 2015 – The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has called on the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike to recall the 344 lecturers and other employees which he reportedly sacked on resumption of office.

In a statement signed by President and Secretary of the union, Mr. Bobboi Kaigama and Musa Lawal respectively, the TUC said failure to recall the sacked workers will portray the governor as playing politics of vendetta.

“Disengaging 344 lecturers and other personnel in one fell swoop without sparing a thought about what would become of them and their dependant  is very improper. It is our view that the governor should do a rethink and reverse that move,” the union noted.

The congress noted that the governor’s actions are most likely fall-outs of the political acrimony that traversed the period before and during the recent elections in the state adding that all such considerations ought to have gone with that period.

“Right now good governance should be the governor’s priority,” the statement added.

According to union, “Nigerians have become increasingly interested in public affairs and impatient for good governance because of years of unfulfilled promises by their leaders. They are much wiser now and can no longer be fooled and impoverished by a minute percentage of the populace, ”TUC said.

The union noted that many of the people whose appointments were terminated probably voted for him. “How will they explain to their friends, family members and associates that the man they so much believed in and voted for has relieved them of their jobs in spite of the fact that job creation and provision of infrastructure were among his campaign promises?”

The TUC called on government at all levels to eschew politics of bitterness, stressing that government is a continuum, and  that any useful project embarked on by a preceding administration should not be done away with so as not to waste taxpayers’ money that has been expended on it.

It added  that such projects could be redefined and improved on, noting that converse attitude by many accounts for the thousands of abandoned projects littering the country.

On Rivers State Road Traffic Management Authority (TIMA-RIV) whose officers the Wike-led government accused of constituting nuisance, extorting money from people, causing accidents and loss of lives of innocent persons, the TUC advised that only persons found to have indulged in such acts should be dismissed.

The congress charged the governor not to take rash decisions lest his intentions be misconstrued even where  it ought to be commended.

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