The Cross River State Government has nullified the controversial recruitment exercise conducted by the defunct Local Government Service Commission and approved a fresh recruitment of 4,000 personnel through a transparent process.
This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday signed and issued by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Anthony Enoh, following the submission of the report by the Panel of Enquiry into the exercise.
According to the statement, the panel found that the recruitment was “fundamentally flawed; lacking in legitimacy and fraught with the absence of executive approvals by the Governor, high-scale and widespread job racketeering, commercialisation of employment slots, institutional complicity, ineptitude and breach of public service ethics.”
The statement added, “Following the submission of the Report of the Panel of Enquiry 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 Panel concluded that the recruitment exercise carried out by the defunct Local Government Commission between 2024/2025 was fundamentally flawed; lacking in legitimacy and fraught with the absence of executive approvals by the Governor, high-scale and widespread job racketeering, commercialisation of employment slots, institutional complicity, ineptitude and breach of public service ethics.”
