As widespread public condemnation trails the purported list of successful candidates for the non-academic staff recruitment exercise conducted recently by the Rivers State University trending online, the institution has disclaimed it, asserting that it never released any such list.

Registrar of the university, Sydney Enyindah in a statement on Wednesday, 05 October 2022 debunked the said document published on social media, purported to be the list of candidates for employment at the university.

He said no responsible university will publish such classified information in any public space, urging the public to ignore the list, describing it as “frivolous”.

Enyindah asked everyone who applied for employment in the university and who were duly interviewed to approach the university management to ascertain the status of their employment.

Earlier, A list containing names of Rivers state indigenes circulated online, as the new employees’ list of the state-owned institution.

The appearance of the said list on social media has sparked a raging backlash as over 85% of the 503 names on the list were said be to be indigenes of Rumueprikom Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on the list with an abysmal few from other parts of Ikwerre ethnic nationality.

Rumueprikom is the hometown of the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.   

A lecturer in the Rivers State University, who preferred anonymity had hinted Kristina Reports that said list was not authentic as it did not emanate from the management of the institution, stressing that the development was unconventional as no institution publishes a list of successful employees and outside official channels.

He further averred that release of the list may have been aimed at painting the management and the State Ministry of Education as well as the entire Rivers State Government in bad light and drag their name in the mud.

Since its release, several indigenes of the State have taken to social media to cry blue murder over the lopsided nature of the list, especially, it’s largely Obio/Akpor-Ikwerre colouration, calling on Governor Wike to investigate the recruitment process and ensure equitable distribution of the vacancies in the Institution in order not to polarize the state along ethnic and political divides.