The state of emergency rule imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has taken a worrisome dimension in the oil rich State.
Besides the pro and anti Sim Fubara protesters, top public servants are resigning by the day on account of the emergency rule.
A few hours ago, chief magistrate in the State, Ejike King George threw in the towel describing the appointment of a s sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd) as an aberration he cannot comprehend.
George on a resignation letter addressed to the Secretary, Rivers State Judicial Service Commission, said; “This difficult and regrettable decision is informed largely by my discomfort with the recent appointment of a quasi-military administration to run the affairs of a modern state like ours.
“Milord will agree with me that this type of governance system is not only alien but also runs antithetical to our hallowed profession as legal practitioners and adjudicators”.
He lamented “having put in a whooping 16 years out of my22 years of legal practice into this judiciary as magistrate under successive democratic administration, I find it difficult to work with the current setting as doing so would amount to a tacit and naive acquiescence”.
