Fubara’s Return: Ibas commences transition activities

*Sets For monolithic Thanksgiving Service Sunday

*Hurriedly Inaugurates Pensions Board

By Daniel Abia, P/Harcourt

With conscionable 4 days near to the much-anticipated September 18 deadline for the lifting of the exigency regularisation successful Rivers state, the sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok–Ette Ekwe Ibas, retired, has planned a monolithic thanksgiving work for the play helium has been successful complaint of the state’s affairs for the past six months.

Invited for the Thanksgiving work are the Permanent Secretaries, Local Government Chairmen, Heads of State Security and Para-Military Agencies, Traditional Rulers, Chairmen and members of Boards and Governing Councils, Captains of industries, Government Officials and guests to the Inter-Denominational Church Thanksgiving Service, arsenic portion of modulation activities to usher successful Democratic Governance successful Rivers State.

The event, which is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine the Ecumenical Centre, Abonnema Warf Road, Port Harcourt by 10 americium has Ibas arsenic a peculiar impermanent of honour, according to a connection signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Ibibia Lucky Worika.

Despite the information that Ibas has conscionable a fewer days near to vacate the Government House, helium took a decisive determination to tackle longstanding issues successful the state’s pension strategy by inaugurating the recently constituted Rivers State Pensions Board with a mandate to reconstruct accountability, transparency, and efficiency.

During the inauguration ceremonial connected Friday astatine the Executive Chambers of Government House, Port Harcourt, the Administrator declared his administration’s unwavering determination to extremity the prolonged suffering of retirees, galore of whom person faced years of delayed payments and frustrating administrative bottlenecks.

“Today’s lawsuit is not conscionable ceremonial; it is simply a reaffirmation of our government’s committedness to ensuring that those who person labored faithfully successful the work of our beloved authorities are treated with the dignity, respect, and attraction they genuinely deserve,” the Administrator stated.

He lamented the neglect faced by pensioners, whom helium described arsenic the dedicated men and women who “gave their champion years to gathering Rivers State.” Vice Admiral Ibas made it wide that the inauguration of the committee indispensable service arsenic a definitive turning point, marking an extremity to the epoch of hardship for retirees.

In a steadfast complaint to the caller committee members, the Administrator acceptable a precocious barroom for performance, stating, “The committee indispensable beryllium a exemplary of bully governance. Excuses volition not beryllium entertained. Our pensioners person waited agelong enough, expectations are high, and the clip to present is now.”

He revealed that the ongoing state-wide re-verification workout has already exposed important lapses successful the erstwhile system. The caller board, helium explained, was cautiously selected to reconstruct confidence, guarantee the punctual processing and outgo of entitlements, and fundamentally safeguard the payment of each retirees.

Only past week, Ibas, pointedly made it wide that the mandate handed to him by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was “sufficiently achieved,” pursuing the palmy restoration of antiauthoritarian governance astatine the grassroots level.

The declaration was made astatine Government House, Port Harcourt, during a ceremonial wherever the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) presented the broad study of the precocious concluded section authorities elections to the State Administrator.

“Mr. President’s mandate to maine was clear: to stabilize the state, make an enabling situation for the re-establishment of its institutions, and instrumentality Rivers State backmost to afloat antiauthoritarian governance,” the Administrator said. “With the palmy behaviour and swearing-in of section authorities chairmen and their councils, I judge we person decisively achieved the mandate that we were given.”

He commended RSIEC for organising what helium described arsenic a fair, credible, and transparent electoral process, which has been wide praised wrong and beyond the state.

“For once, an predetermination was conducted wherever cipher was harassed, wherever radical went retired freely to explicit themselves and to prime whom they wanted arsenic their leaders. This is simply a testament to the peaceful and enabling situation we person collectively fostered,” helium remarked.

Expectations are precocious with Rivers radical waiting patiently from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arsenic the timepiece winds down six months since the ...