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Why Amaechi Should Be In Jail – Wike
Governor Wike Hits Back At His Former Boss
By Emmanuel Adigwe
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said that his immediate predecessor and incumbent Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi should be in jail if the country were truly practicing democracy.
The governor disclosed this while speaking on Focus Nigeria, a television programme on AIT on Monday as he fired back at his former boss under whom he served as chief of staff between 2007 and 2011.
GWG recalls that the Amaechi had berated the governor over what he lamented as the insecurity and political intimidation in Rivers State during the funeral service of the deceased Supreme Court justice, Adolphus Karibi-Whyte in Abonnema, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of the state.
Amaechi said: “You have lost your voice. The sage (the late justice) has gone under and nobody is speaking. When I was governor, I gave people voices, but they have blocked those voices.
“Everyone is scared. We are going back to when Ateke held sway. We are going back to the period where we run away from our people. We are back to a period when nobody could speak. But from next year, I will begin to speak, if nobody wants to speak.
“We are all here because we need to bury a man God has blessed. I have stopped travelling because of bad weather, but I told myself I must be here because of Justice Whyte.
“If you knew Justice (Karibi-Whyte) very well, you will know I was close to him. I was one of the few people he mentored.”
Reacting to this, Governor Wike stated that the Minister of Transportation should not be a free man but should be in jail by now.
He said: “”With due respect to President Muhammadu Buhari, I think he shouldn’t have had such a man as a Minister. He (Amaechi) should be in jail for violation of human rights.
“How can somebody oversee the locking up of the judiciary? There was nowhere for people to ventilate their anger. Contracts were breached and people couldn’t go to court. People relied on police to settle their differences.
“A pregnant woman was to be given bail right on the day the courts were shut down. The woman gave birth in prison. Imagine that kind of a harrowing experience.
“And that is the man they say is one of the best governors. No, he is not the best Governor.”
Speaking on Amaechi’s investments in education, specifically the building of model schools, Wike disclosed that the funds were wasted, stressing that much more could have been done with “with the billions of naira”, spent on building new schools.
He said: “What we are trying to do is that with the little resources we are getting, we are trying to renovate old schools through SUBEB.
“You know my former Governor; I worked with him, so I know him too well. When he is flying with people in the helicopter, he will be pointing his fingers and telling them see that school there, I built it. He is that kind of man. If he hadn’t started something, he would kill it.
“But when I see a project that will impact the livezs of the people, I complete it. The Degema General Hospital which he started has been completed but when I see a political project, I have no business. So many roads he (Amaechi) did not do and the once he did not complete, I completed them.”
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