Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Joseph Johnson, has dismissed claims by the resigned Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the State, Justice, Prof. Zachueus Adangor, that Governor Siminalayi Fubara
Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Joseph Johnson, has dismissed claims by the resigned Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the State, Justice, Prof. Zachueus Adangor, that Governor Siminalayi Fubara interfered with his duties by directing him not to defend, oppose or appear in suits instituted against him.
He explained that the ex-commissioner did not only quit office on account of being redeployed, but his excuse for leaving was false and baseless. Johnson stated that Adangor should have raised the allegation before his redeployment.
He spoke yesterday during a live programme in Port Harcourt. His words: “The claims by the ex-Commissioner of Justice are ‘fallacy of hasty generation’. He is not saying the full truth. He came back in January as a commissioner, and we are just in April. At the last Executive Council meeting we had on Tuesday last week, the former Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, who also resigned, was the one who moved the motion.
“The person that was not in that meeting was the Commissioner for Justice. He obtained an excuse, but in all, the governor has the right to hire and fire. If I should take the public opinion, the duo only resigned just because they were reassigned to other ministries.” Johnson also disagreed with Kamalu on the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state.
The immediate past Commissioner of Finance had claimed that the policy framework he initiated led to the steady rise in the IGR. The governor, last week, stated that the IGR grew from about N11 billion under the Nyesom Wike administration to between N26 billion and N27 billion in about one year of his tenure.
Speaking further, Johnson stated that the state is not borrowing money, yet executing several projects across the three senatorial districts.
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