The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has called on Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to recall the sacked 344 lecturers of the State Polytechnic, Bori.

The disposed workers were employed in September 2014 by the then governor, Rotimi Amaechi.

TUC also frowned at Wike’s proscription of the Rivers State Road Traffic Management Authority, stressing that it was against the interest of justice and fair play.

In a statement issued on Sunday by its President, Bala Kaigama, and Secretary General, Musa Lawal, the Congress noted that such an action would not be in tandem with what the nation in general and Rivers State in particular needed at the moment.

“Disengaging 344 lecturers and other personnel in one fell swoop without sparing a thought about what would become of them and their dependents is very improper. It is our view that the governor should have a rethink and reverse that move”, TUC pleaded.

The statement further linked Wike’s action with his ongoing political rivalry between him and the former governor, Amaechi.

TUC said, “If the reported cases of the mass sack of 344 lecturers and others employed at the Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori since September 2014 by the state’s immediate past administration led by Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi and the disbandment of the Rivers State Road Traffic Management Authority (TIMA-RIV) are anything to go by, then we might be tempted to believe that the new governor of the state, Barrister Nyesom Wike, is out to play a politics of vendetta.

“Nigerians have become increasingly interested in public affairs and impatient for good governance because of years of unfulfilled promises by their leaders. They are much wiser now and can no longer be fooled and impoverished by a minute percentage of the populace”.

The labour union insisted that many of the people whose appointments were terminated by Wike probably voted for him.

“How will they explain to their friends, family members and associates that the man they so much believed in and voted for has relieved them of their jobs in spite of the fact that job creation and provision of infrastructure were among his campaign promises?” TUC queried.