BAD: Rivers Police stops distribution of job letters to teachers

*The frustrated teachers outside the stadium

Thirteen thousand newly recruited teachers by the Rivers State Government were this morning in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital dispersed by the Police at the Liberation Stadium as they gathered to collect their appointment letters.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Richard Ofuru, said the Ministry was compelled by the heavy presence of the Police to ask the teachers to go home to avoid stampede and confrontation with the Police.

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When Ofuru was asked whether he informed the Police Command that 13,000 teachers would be gathering at the stadium he said; “I am surprised that we have to take Police Permit to gather teachers and give them appointment letters because it is a purely administrative process. When we interviewed them we used the Main Bowl of Sharks Stadium behind the Rivers State Police Command because of the crowd. We did not inform the Police and there was no incident.
“It is like saying we must invite the Police each time we have an inter-House Sport Competition. It is purely a school affair. There have been radio and Television announcements inviting the newly recruited teachers to come out and collect their letters. The Police PPRO should have informed us so that we do not allow 13,000 teachers to travel from all parts of the state only to be dispersed.” He however gave the assurance that the disruption by the Police would not deter the Ministry from issuing the employment letters to the 13,000 employed teachers who are supposed to resume teaching in the new schools built by the Governor Amaechi’s administration.
The new image-maker of the Rivers State Police Command, Ahmad Mohammad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police,DSP, who resumed yesterday after Angela Agabe was removed declined to comment on the reason for dispersing the teachers.
He said he will address the press later.
However, Kelechi Wogu,one of the five anti-Governor Chibuike Amaechi lawmakers on behalf of the others issued a press statement that the Rivers State government was gathering people at the stadium to protest against President Goodluck Jonathan.
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