As comments by Minister of Transportation Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi continue to draw reactions, Samuel Nwanosike, the Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State has berated the minister for attributing insecurity in Rivers State to unemployment.
While addressing the press at his office in Isiokpo, Nwanosike said that Amaechi was indicting President Muhammadu Buhari, his boss by making such comment because he never provided the jobs he promised Nigerians.
“Look at the indictment he is indicting Mr President. For Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi to publicly say that the reason why we have insecurity in Rivers State and in other States of Nigeria is because of unemployment, it means that his principal who is the government at the centre has failed Nigerians, he said.
“They promised Nigerians that they would provide employment. That Nigerians should vote out Jonathan’s government because of insecurity. In fact, they even made a promise that they would pay those who don’t have jobs stay-at-home allowance”.
The Ikwerre Council Chairman wondered why the All Progressive Congress (APC) led Federal Government which Amaechi, who is the immediate past Governor of Rivers State, belongs to has not provided the jobs and tackled insecurity in the country as promised.
“And so if Rotimi Amaechi is now telling Nigerians today that his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, has failed in securing our lives and our properties which is the first duty of Government as enshrined in our Constitution, then it is now obvious and true that all the utterances Amaechi have been making and all the statements credited to him are true”.
However, he noted that “Amaechi can see clearly that the insecurity he it’s talking about is happening in his own President’s home State, Katsina. It’s happening in Kaduna. It’s happening in Sokoto. It’s happening in Zamfara. It’s happening in Niger. It’s happening in all the APC States.
“In Kaduna where Nasir El-Rufai comes from, is Amaechi telling us that lack of jobs is the cause of the killing of students and selling their body parts?”
Nwanosike asserted that “Nigerians can now see through the Minister of Transportation and admit that President Buhari is the cause of our problem because he is the Chief Security Officer of the nation who commands all the security officers of the nation has failed in securing our lives and property”.
However, he wondered why Amaechi who claims to have been nominating all the security heads in Rivers State cannot bring the ones that can secure the lives and properties of Rivers people.
The Ikwerre LGA Chairman reminded Amaechi that when he was the Governor of Rivers State, his Community, Ubima, was the kidnapping capital of Rivers State, that a Reverend Father was slaughtered in his Community under his watch as Governor and a Lebanese working with the construction company constructing Ubima Road was kidnapped.
“His Community came back to life as a Community after he has left as Governor. It took Governor Nyesom Wike to come and fight insecurity in his Community for them and build a secondary school”.
Nwanosike revealed that Amaechi put up a defection programme on Sunday in order to counter the chieftaincy title bestowed on Gov Wike by Ogoni people, adding that Amaechi was angry because he never got such recognition when he was Governor.
“Maybe Amaechi does not know. Maybe he has not been told. Let me use this opportunity to tell him. Nyesom Wike is not only building roads, Nyesom Wike is building human capacity. Nyesom Wike is building healthcare services. Nyesom Wike is making sure that Rivers State returns back to the Treasure Base of the Nation. Trans-Amadi is back. Companies are returning back. People are pulling out of Lagos and bringing their investments home”.
