SEC jamboree cancelled in Cross River

The days of the weekly State Executive Council (SEC) meeting is over in Cross River State, thanks to the scrapping of the exercise by the new state governor, Prof. Ben Ayade.

The SEC meetings provide a platform for governors, their deputies, commissioners, special advisers and permanent secretaries to meet and review activities of government in the various states on weekly basis.

However, many see such meetings as mere jamborees as hardly any meaningful resolution comes out of them. SEC meetings have over the years been reduced to mere contract awarding parleys by successive governments both at the state and federal levels.

Senator Ayade during a closed door meeting with permanent secretaries in the state on Tuesday directed that in place of the weekly meeting, there will be a monthly interactive session in the executive Council Chambers.

The governor in the meeting with the permanent secretaries also scraped the anti-deforestation taskforce put in place by his predecessor, Senator Liyel Imoke to checkmate the illegal logging of large forest reserves in the state for which the United Nations has granted 600 million dollars for the carbon credit accruing from the forest reserves.

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