Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, says it is deceitful for minister of transportation Chibuike Amaechi, to attribute insecurity in the State to unemployment.
He said if the minister, who is the immediate past governor of the state has any atom of sincerity, he will attest to the fact that security is the sole responsible of the federal government, or whether he ( Amaechi) is trying to indict his boss, President Muhammad Buhari, who is the Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
According to Wike, the President is constitutionally saddled with the responsibility to provide security for Nigerians.
That it is a well known fact that Amaechi is the one who appoints every commissioner of Police that has been posted to Rivers State since 2015, meaning that if there is any security failure, he is to blame.
According to him “Is unemployment fuelling insecurity in Kaduna, plateau and other northern states governed by the All Progressive Congress (APC)?”.
Governor Wike described the Minister’s misguided utterance on the current imposition of curfew in the state, following the recent attacks on police formations, as rather unfortunate.
The governor said that the minister may be happy that members of the proscribed IPOB are killing innocent policemen, who are protecting lives ad properties, saying that by all indication that Amaechi has lost focus and is now frustrated.
Rivers governor declared that his administration has offered scholarship to over 500 Rivers State Students to study medicine and othet related courses at PAMO University.
Reacting to allegation by the minister he is acquiring property in the state, the governor said it is better to acquire property in Nigeria than to do so in Ghana.
Governor Wike said that Amaechi’s jubilation over the defection of his former Commissioner of Urban and Rural Planning, REASON ONYA, who was indicted by a judicial Commission of inquiry, is a pointer that he is politcally irrelevant in Rivers State.
The governor ,further urge the minister to return to Abuja and resolve the financial malfeasance rocking federal agencies under his watch, and desist from destroying the homes of others.
