Otu nullifies unauthorised recruitment into C’River LG commission

The governor also said that only 83 personnel initially appointed for the Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission, CROSIEC, by the Civil Service Commission and redesignated to the local government service commission will remain on the payroll while others recruited by the sacked local government service commission will be removed from the state’s payroll.“Following the submission of the Report of the Panel of Inquiry into the Recent Local Government Recruitment Exercise and having carefully considered the issues raised, investigations conducted and recommendations made by the Panel, the Cross River State Government has taken the following decisions: The recruitment carried out by the defunct Local Government Service Commission between 2024/2025 was fundamentally flawed; lacking in legitimacy and fraught with absence of executive approvals, high-scale and widespread job racketeering, commercialisation of employment slots, institutional complicity, ineptitude and breach of public service ethics.

Bassey Otu By Emma Una Cross River State Governor Bassey Otu has ordered the cancellation of thousands of unauthorised appointments into the local government service by the Local Government Service Commission which was sacked earlier in the year.