BY Taiwo George
The national industrial court sitting in Bayelsa state has ordered the reinstatement of the 22 local government chairmen of Rivers state that were sacked on Thursday.
The court directed the inspector-general of police to provide security for the chairmen, who were elected on May 23, 2015 towards the end of Rotmi Amaechi’s governorship tenure.
Accusing Amaechi’s administration of flouting a court order stopping the conduct of the election, Lambo Akanbi, a judge of the federal high court in Port Harcourt, ordered the dismissal of the chairmen.
Nyesom Wike, governor of the state, subsequently swore in caretaker chairmen but they have not been able to assume office as a result of the siege that laid by policemen on all the local government secretariats in the state.
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