The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has expressed displeasure over an alleged lopsided employment policy of construction companies, Julius Berger and CCECC.
The House claimed that the employment policies of these companies were skewed against indigenes of the State.
In a debate arising from petitions received from some indigenes of the State claiming that they were given jobs not commensurate with their qualification and experience while non-indigenes were given the managerial positions, the House resolved to probe the construction companies handling road and other infrastructural projects for the State government.
The petitions had been raised as a point of information by the chairman, House Committee on Human Rights, Public Petitions, judiciary and justice, Barr. Ekong Sampson.
He told the House that his committee had been inundated with petitions by Akwa Ibom indigenes complaining of discrimination and other unfair employment practices by major construction companies operating in the state.
Sampson who represents Mkpat Enin in the Assembly, told the House that the petitioners had complained that they were being employed and placed in positions and working conditions? unfit for them having regard? to their qualifications.
When the matter was thrown open for general debate, the lawmakers, in their contribution condemned the action of the construction firms and wondered why they should subject indigenes of the State to such discriminatory employment conditions.
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