Akwa Ibom APC Raises the Alarm over State Govt’s Employment Scam

Another aide of Emmanuel resigns

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has raised the alarm over an employment scam by the state government aimed at using it to regularise the long-concluded employment of Governor Udom Emmanuel’s kinsmen from his Awa clan in Onna Local Government Area and to deceive unsuspecting job-seekers and members of the public that there are genuine vacancies in the state civil service.

There also appears to be no respite for the governor as the mass resignation of his aides has continued unabated.

APC raised the alarm in a press statement signed by its State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Nkereuwem Enyongekere following the recent advertisement of vacancies in the civil service by the state government.

The APC said in the press release that the whole scam was a panicky measure by Governor Udom Emmanuel to regularize the illegal employment he has given his kinsmen, some of whom were employed over a year ago, realizing that he will lose the 2019 governorship election.

The APC maintained that the scam, which it described as wicked, became manifest with the total shutdown of the job application portal by the state government a day after it was opened and the denial of printout to applicants, even within that brief period, to prevent them from having any evidence of application.