Tuesday, September 16, 2014

'YOU BE WOMAN WRAPPER' - AMAECHI BLASTS IBU

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 Photo: Amaechi Decries High Level Corruption

RIVERS State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed worry over the level of corruption in the country, saying the level of graft in the country knows no bound.

Amaechi, who spoke on Tuesday while swearing in 21 local government caretaker committee chairmen, observed that public funds were diverted by government officials for private use.

The government charged the new caretaker committee chairmen to shun corruption and ensure that public funds were utilized for the good of the people.

Amaechi also disclosed that some outgone council members were sending text messages to him for them to be allowed to return to the offices they had left.

He said, “I am a worried man; I am extremely worried for the country because the level of text I got from people, even the desperation by old council members who wanted to return, I wonder why they were so desperate.

“It just shows me that they were only interested in increasing their stomach infrastructure. I got very very worried. People were desperate, people were threatening, all sorts of text messages were sent to me, but I remained adamant and said let the people go and choose. I will not participate in this very exercise. I believe that you have been chosen and please serve the people.

“My problem is that the level of corruption in Nigeria now knows no bound. It is so bad that if you read Sahara Reporters, you will hear that two aircrafts were arrested in South Africa carrying $9.5 million.

“The problem is that they left here (Nigeria) freely, unchecked; nobody asked them questions. So, if at that federal level, people can get away, you have to see how bad corruption has become in Nigeria; that Nigerians can travel anyhow they like with money, money they didn’t earn, money that is stolen.

“Now, nobody is afraid to be corrupt. State governments are not able to pay salaries because instead of the normal money we receive every month, it has come down for Rivers State nearly 45 to 50 percent. That is the way it is now and the reason is because the other money is stolen.”

He disclosed that the state would organize local government elections to usher in democratically elected local government chairmen and councillors immediately after the country’s general elections.

“We have assured the state that we would organize (local government) election immediately after the national elections because we believe that only democratically elected council chairmen should run the councils. So, I congratulate you for the next three months and I hope you will be able to perform,” Amaechi told the new council bosses.

However, seven out of the 21 new caretaker chairmen retained their positions, including those of Bonny and Emohua Local Government Areas.

Punch.Rivers State Governor and chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum(NGF) Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has dismissed comments by the infamous and draconian former Commissioner of Police in Rivers State Joseph Mbu, who while apparently referring to Governor Amaechi described himself as a lion who tamed the Governor... in Port Harcourt.

Mbu, who was recently promoted Assistant Inspector-General of Police, said this while handling over to the FCT Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu, on Monday in Abuja.

However, Governor Amaechi scoffed at Mbu’s claims to be a lion. In a statement by his Spokesman David Iyofor in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the Governor described Mbu as a puppet who completely lacks the steel and strength of character of a lion, and is rather a shameless, corrupt puppet and toothless attack dog of a woman.

How can a man who willingly submits himself to serve as the puppet of a woman call himself a lion? How ironic! Mr. Mbu, no lion behaves like that! You are a disgrace and shame to the Nigerian Police Force.”

Amaechi recounted that when the former Rivers police commissioner finally left the state, Mbu disobeyed the instruction of the Inspector General of Police to pack out of his official residence in Rivers State.

“Mbu refused to pack out because he said he would come back here (to Rivers State) as the Commissioner to organize the 2015 elections. When eventually he packed out and this is a long time after his successor had resumed here, he took everything including the carpet and nothing has happened to him, nobody has punished him for that. During his time here, when we hold Security Council meetings in Rivers State, he goes to report the proceedings of the meetings, what everyone said, to his woman puppeteer.

The statement concluded that a thousand Mbus can neither "tame"(using the word of Mbu) Governor Amaechi nor the people of Rivers State to surrender their constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights to anyone, no matter how highly placed.

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