Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim says everybody living and doing business in Rivers State has a responsibility to help the government to develop the state.
Nsirim, who said this on a live radio programme monitored in Port Harcourt, said that demarketing the state in the name of politics will not help anyone.
He said “as Rivers people, we have a shared responsibility to protect the state”.
Nsirim noted that time has come for people to stop playing politics with everything, adding that “when a man is doing well, we should praise him.
“Demarketing our state will not help us”, he said.
The commissioner said Governor Nyesom Wike’s development fingerprint was felt in every sector of the state economy, adding that even the recently commissioned cassava processing company has developed a method of reaching out to farmers with a view to ensuring easy evacuation of their produce for processing.
He also said that a good number of schools in the state have been upgraded, renovated and equipped, while the Dr Pater Odili cancer and cardiovascular treatment centre now under construction would create more than 3,000 jobs
Nsirim said the on-going flyover construction in the state was meant to impart Rivers young engineers with technical skills, while the government was working hard to ensure that 70 per cent of workers at the newly flagged-off Train 7 NLNG project in Bonny come from Rivers State.
He said that the influx of foreign investments into the state in the last six years was a testament that Rivers State was a safe haven for investment.
The commissioner also commended the Silverbird Group for moving their Extraordinary Man of the Year Award event to Port Harcourt, stressing that the ceremony would attract thousands of people from across the world who would come to the state to see what the governor was doing.
Nsirim described Wike as a wonderful and patriotic man, stressing that the governor’s focus was to leave office and walk the streets of Port Harcourt without anyone jeering at him.
