{"id":78955,"date":"2025-11-19T07:57:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78955"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:57:46","slug":"cross-river-governor-dissolves-lg-service-commission-board-over-recruitment-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/19\/cross-river-governor-dissolves-lg-service-commission-board-over-recruitment-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross River Governor Dissolves LG Service Commission Board Over Recruitment Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado<\/p>\n<p>Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State has dissolved the Board of the Local Government Service Commission following confirmed reports of employment racketeering and abuse of office during its recent recruitment exercise.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, Chief Press Secretary Linus Obogo said the governor described the misconduct as a \u201cbetrayal of public trust\u201d and a violation of public service principles.<\/p>\n<p>Otu recalled that the controversial recruitment, previously suspended, will remain on hold pending a new, transparent, merit-based process.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that anyone found culpable would face strict sanctions, emphasizing the administration\u2019s commitment to integrity and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State has dissolved the Board of the Local Government Service Commission following confirmed reports of employment racketeering and abuse of office during its recent recruitment exercise. In a statement on Tuesday, Chief Press Secretary Linus Obogo said the governor described the misconduct as a \u201cbetrayal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":78956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78957,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78955\/revisions\/78957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}