BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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GOVERNOR Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has constituted a five-man panel to investigate the level of involvement of some career public civil servants in partisan politics, with a view to saving the civil service of the state from destruction by politicians.
Members of the panel include Renner Tiebiri, chairman; Enokie Bribena, secretary and legal adviser; Suru Oyarede; Walton Liverpool and Ebikipah Ebikake.
A statement issued by Serena Dokubo-Spiff, secretary to the state government, on Thursday, March 3, in Yenagoa, state capital, said it had come to the notice of the government that some public servants had been involved in partisan politics in the last December, 2015 and January, 2016 governorship polls, “where they were used as coordinators of political parties and party agents at various levels.”
According to Dokubo-Spiff, the state government was also aware of plans by a particular political party to use some public servants as witnesses to testify during election petition tribunal.
“The action of such public servants, most of whom were card-carrying members of various political parties, was a clear contravention of the extant Public Service Rules, PSR No. 030422 (a-d) of the 2008 edition,” the SSG stated.
The government, he said, would invoke the provisions in the PSR to deal decisively with any public servant indicted by the panel.
— Mar 3, 2016 @ 16:50 GMT
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