RIVERS State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the Federal Government lacked the political will to implement the United Nations (UN) environment programme report on Ogoniland to make the environment habitable for the people, including the provision of water and other infrastructural development.
He told Ogoni people on Sunday at the thanksgiving celebration of former Council Chairman of Khana Local Council, Gregory Nwidam at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, Bane, that this lack of will to implement the UNEP report was one of the reasons he left his former party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He said: “After the verification and recommendation by the agency to the Federal Government, they have refused to release the sum of $1 million for the clean-up and development of the area. As I am talking with you today, the Federal Government is doing nothing about the UNEP report. One million dollars is about N160 billion, but the Federal Government had been spending billions in other places. But you need to ask yourselves one question, what did Ogoni do against the Federal Government that they cannot release N160 billion to save your environment? That is the reason I left PDP for APC because our interest is not being protected in PDP.”
The governor urged the people of Ogoni and all Rivers people to register and identify with the APC in order to vote out the PDP in the 2015 general elections.
He also advised supporters of the APC in the state to resist any attempt by the PDP to use police and the military to intimidate and manipulate the 2015 elections against the will of the electorate.
Source: GuardianNG
