The House of Reps on Tuesday issued a two-week ultimatum to President
Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed
Abubakar, and the controversial Commissioner of Police in Rivers State,
Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu.
“Recent developments in some parts of the country concerning civil
liberties and the safety of lives and properties of citizens are a
matter for serious concern.
“The two incidences in Rivers State, the one in Ogun State and the other
in Borno State, bear all the trappings of impunity which must be
eschewed at all cost if we hope to continue to deepen our democracy."
The House took the decision during a session after unanimously adopting a
motion by Hon. Aliyu Madaki (APC-Kano). Madaki, who raised his motion
under Matters of Urgent National Importance, asked the House to issue a
two-week ultimatum to the President to sack the police chief and his
commissioner.
He said with the alleged growing impunity of the
commissioner and the curious silence of the IG, it was clear that they
were taking sides with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against the
government of Rivers State headed by Rotimi Amaechi.
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has revealed the core of his frosty
relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan, saying the state is
being victimised. Amaechi, who is the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’
Forum, noted that he left the PDP for the APC to protect the interest of
Rivers people.
"For Rivers State, basically that is the cause of the quarrel and you have a choice to make. The choice for me is to vote out PDP and there is no sentiment about that.
"Legally, we have not lost Soku (oil wells). We have just lost Soku to the fact that the President is from Bayelsa. When a President that is not from Bayelsa comes, he will look at the facts and the facts are there.
"The Federal Government, in writing in the court, said to the court:
‘sorry, court, we made a mistake; we will correct the mistake’ and we have told the Federal Government: ‘don’t call us for a meeting; go and correct that mistake.
How could you people wake up in 2011… suddenly changed the map of
Nigeria and take Soku (a part of Rivers State) into Bayelsa State?”
Amaechi also said the Jonathan administration refused to carry on a very
important road project awarded by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration
to link the oil-rich Bonny Island in the state.
He said: “That
road to Bonny was awarded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. They
started; they have done just one bridge... President Goodluck Jonathan
has forgotten about that road completely, despite the fact that part of
the money that feeds the Nigerian economy comes from that place, Bonny.
That’s where you have the natural gas plant.”
After undergoing his surgery in faraway India, Veteran producer OJB returned to Nigeria a few days ago after spending over four
months in hospital for his kidney transplant. A big thanks to all that donated to #SaveOJB especially Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi and the Lagos State Government as well.
