The 22 local government chairmen of Rivers state sacked by a Rivers State High Court on Thursday were today reinstated by the national industrial court sitting in Bayelsa state.
The court also directed the inspector-general of police to provide security for the chairmen, who were elected on May 23, 2015 towards the end of Rotmi Amaechi’s governorship tenure.
In an earlier ruling, Lambo Akanbi, a judge of the federal high court in Port Harcourt, who ordered the dismissal of the chairmen accused Amaechi’s administration of flouting a court order stopping the conduct of the election.
Nyesom Wike, governor of the state, subsequently swore in caretaker chairmen but they have not been able to assume office as a result of the siege that laid by policemen on all the local government secretariats in the state.