As the build up to the 2027 electioneering season gradually takes shape, a socio-political pressure group, Rivers Liberation Movement (RLM) has restated its readiness to liberate the state from oppressive control of a single individual and harness its resources for the welfare of the citizens.
Dr Leloonu Nwibubasar, Convener of Rivers Liberation Movement (RLM), stated this in Port Harcourt shortly after the inauguration of the State Executive Committee members of the body.
He said the message of liberation resonates with everybody and every facets of the state’s economy.
Nwibubasar, who is a former commissioner for employment generation in the state said the educational sector, citizens welfare, political space amongst others, needs liberation.
”This movement has a vision and a message and the message of this movement is liberation and liberation resonates with everybody in Rivers State.
We need to liberate our state. Our education system is dead, it needs liberation, our young men and women are without jobs, they need liberation, our elders are not being cared for, even senior citizens who have worked for this state are not being cared for, we need liberation.
” We need our political space to be liberated from the hands of a man who directs and dictates what members of the House of Assembly and every person should do and so, knowing that the message resonates with all Rivers people, it’s not a difficult thing to understand that darkness will crumble in the face of light, ” he said.
Nwibubasar charged the newly inaugurated state executives to go all out and evangelise the message of liberation to the nook and crannies of Rivers State.
”Today we officially inaugurated the State Executive Committee led by the Director-General, Randolph Iwo Brown to undertake this journey of mobilising Rivers people from all nook and crannies, from our streets to the creeks, to the market places. Every Rivers man and woman must come into the awareness that our state has been captured to the advantage of a few and it is time to liberate that state and liberate its resources and use it to develop Rivers State and for the welfare of the people.
”Today I have charged them to be courageous because the road ahead is not going to be easy. I have charged them to be truthful and transparent because we must represent a different narrative from what we have seen in governance today. I have charged them fully to embrace every person in Rivers State and bring them into this movement and to ensure that our state is delivered from the hands of its captors, ” he added.
Responding on behalf of the newly inaugurated executives, the Director-General, Randolph Iwo Brown, said the inauguration marks a significant step towards the liberation of the state.
He charged his fellow executive members to be ready for the task ahead as people of the state are looking up to them.
”To our incoming directors, I say your appointment is not just a recognition of your intellectual excellence but a vote of confidence in your ability to lead, to inspire and to serve. The people of Rivers State looks up to you and we trust that you will stir our ship towards the promised land. Let us work together hand-in-hand, build a Rivers State that is just, equitable, prosperous for all. Let us dedicate ourselves to the principles of unity, justice and progress. The people of Rivers State are counting on you, ” he said.
Brown, a former member of the National Assembly, representating Bonny/Degema Federal Constituency appealed for support from members of the Global Steering Committee of the body.
”I will urge all other members of the Global Steering Committee to give us all the support to achieve this onerous task ahead because we can’t do it alone, ” he added.
