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Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has charged newly sworn-in chairman and members of the State House of Assembly Service Commission to achieve greater productivity, promote highest standard  and insist on best practices in the discharge of Legislative services.

Governor Fubara also urged them to ensure that parliamentary staff are put through disciplinary conducts in the discharge of their duties in the service.

Governor Fubara gave the charge shortly after the chairman and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA) Service Commission were sworn-in at the Executive Chamber of Government House in Port Harcourt, last Friday.

The Governor also sworn-in the chairman and members of the Rivers State Local Government Service Commission.

Hon Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja, is the chairman of RSHA, with Dr Kennedy Ebeku, Hon. Soberekon Clark, Hon. Jones Ogbonda, and Hon Kingston Sylvanus as members.

For the Rivers State Local Government Service Commission, Hon GoodLife Ben will serve as the chairman, with Chief Emmanuel G. Jaja, Ms. Betty Warmate, Barrister Jerome Chimenem, Hon Prince O. Ohochukwu, Barrister Philip Okparaji, and Christian Amadi as members.

Governor Fubara explained that the constitution and swearing-in of the respective commissions were delayed with the hope that all former members of the political block will come back together but quickly added that such expectation is dashed now as governance has to move on.

He said: “As it stands now, our position is very clear. The ship that we are onboard is clear, and the activities of governance have to continue.

“So, this swearing-in is to give these two units of government – particularly, the House of Assembly Service Commission, a formal commission so that you can start carrying out the activities of promotion, discipline and every other thing that has to do with the le

By Okechukwu Keshi Ukegbu

A calm disposition in the face of undue provocation is one of the greatest virtue of man.The virtue is rare and is highly respected and celebrated. It is incontrovertible that”the less you respond to negative people, the more your life will become”. Like Agos Bamaiyi rightly puts it,” Remain calm in the face of provocation, challenges and difficulties; for then you are the most likely to see the most beneficial way out. No matter how badbthings get, there is always a honourable way out”.

Arguably, in the history of politics in Nigeria, no man has exhibited this high level of calmness in the face of undue and unwarranted provocation more Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu. He has been roundly abused. Uncomplimentary remarks, highly not benefitting to an office holder as exalted as the governorship position, have been hurled on him. His statements have time without limit been slanted to taunt him. He has been serially abused by even people he feed. But Gov Okezie Ikpeazu has chosen to maintain a calm disposition amid these abuses.

The governor’s responses to these undue provocations have kept many wondering what manner of man he is. Bit tontge discerning minds, Gov. Ikpeazu’s attitude is the best way to go. His attitude of not returning evil to evil is drawn from Mahatma Ghandi’s position thusky”Do not fight by means of violence. Violence is a sign of weakness. Whatever cannot win by influencing the heart tries to win by means of violence. The most splendid and lasting battles known to history are the battles of human thought.The most ignoble and the shortest are the battles of violence. An idea which needs weapons to survive, will die by itself. The idea which prevails merely through the use of violence is perverted. A living idea conquers by itself. It is followed by millions”. Furthermore, we are admonished that “Naked coercion… is an expensive affair for the rulers. Even for them it

The Abia State PDP 2023 governorship candidate, Chief Okey Ahiwe has sent a goodwill message to former governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu on the event of his 59th birthday and the second annual lecture of the Ishmael Ikpeazu Memorial Library and Centre for Scientific Leadership.

Chief Ahiwe, thanked God for the life of Dr. Ikpeazu and commended the foresight of establishing the Ishmael Ikpeazu Library and Centre for Scientific Leadership, and instituting the annual lecture series to lead insightful conversations on social issues and evolve new paradigms of scientific leadership.

In his words, “Okezie Ikpeazu is a compassionate Philosopher King who, like other historical models in the crusade for human liberty, has never been addicted to vainglorious fantasies of power showmanship. He had always remained conscious, prior to and after his remarkably successful tenure as Governor, of the transient nature of power and the imperative obligation to invest it in constructing enduring structures for growth and defences of human freedom, anchored on peace. This reflects in his mantra of scientific leadership which the Ishmael Ikpeazu Centre is established to propagate. Men like Ikpeazu or Mahatma Ghandi or Martin Luther King Jr are mostly celebrated long after they have exited the stage, not as perfect mortals but as timeless legends whose perceived weakness became their greatest strengths, sometimes ascending to enigmatic realms of superhuman apotheosis, with authoritative footprints which no force on earth can obliterate.”

Chief Ahiwe while wishing Dr. Ikpeazu a very joyful birthday and God’s abundant blessings in the years ahead, called on Abians, Igbos and Nigerians at large, particularly youths and students, to visit the Ishmael Ikpeazu Memorial Library and Centre for Scientific Leadership which he described as a strategic educational and heritage resource centre.

Victor C. Nwokocha, ANIPR
Media Adviser to Chief Okey Ahiwe
October 18, 2023