Opposition politicians opposed to the Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi have threatened to launch a destructive attack on the state government owned Banana plantation in Tia Local Government council.
The politicians issued the threat at the ward and council inauguration of members of Grassroot Development Initiative in Tai Local Government Area of the state.
Supervising minister of education, Nyesom Wike had mocked the state’s agricultural project calling on the people of Ogoni to reject such projects.
According to him, “there is nothing called new PDP. They have been defeated in court. They have been defeated in INEC. Nobody will challenge Mr. President. For all those intimidations, be rest assured you will get all the necessary protections within the ambits of the Law. Nobody will intimidate you.
“You must know people who mean well for you. You all have to know that the Ogonis are not monkeys. When I hear people say they have something for Ogoni, the only industry they have for you is a banana industry. Holy Ghost fire for all the people, for all those that conspired that there is nothing that is good for the Ogoni people except to make them have bananas. Ogoni people have paid their dues. They are not meant to be eating bananas”.
Also, a former Senator from the state, Lee Maeba said he would personally take the lead to ravage the plantation.
“We are not monkeys and we are not growing bananas at all. They have been talking on the radio that they uncovered a plot. There is no need to uncover anything, I said I will lead a well-meaning protest of all the Ogonis and by the time we return there will be no more bananas”, he threatened.
Maeba also alleged that the banana plantation was one of the factors undermining the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report:
“I said it in Bori that after listening to the cries of the Ogonis, they agreed that the soil of Ogoni is contaminated and there must be clean-up and compensation. When the compensation team arrived from New York, Pharo led a group of agriculturist and went to establish banana farm and told them that the soil is good that they should not pay compensation; they should not clean up the land.
“But with those bananas, they are using to deceive our people, to deceive the United Nations, to deceive the Federal Government that the soil is clean. We shall clean up the bananas and clean up the soil”, he added.
In a related development, a former Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Chibudum Nwuche has said Governor Amaechi would be made to account for all the allocations he had received.
Nwuche accused Governor Amaechi of playing politics with fund meant for the state.
“What pains me most is that somebody we freely gave a mandate to and placed in Government House has forsaken the state and going on adventures.
“He has bought a plane. He will carry journalists and they will go to a place called Songhai Farms, they will go to one medical centre, they will go to one school. They go to one school all the time as if we have no schools before.
“How can you spend over N3 trillion only on schools and medical centres. I challenge our Governor to a debate. He should come out and account to the people what he has been doing with our money for the past 6years”, he said.
Nwuche who is also the immediate past acting National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, tasked the people of the state to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election.
The banana plantation is one of the major agricultural projects of the Rivers State government, which is jointly owned by Union De Initiative SA DE CV of Mexico and has taken about the sum of N10 billion.
Opposition politicians opposed to the Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi have threatened to launch a destructive attack on the state government owned Banana plantation in Tia Local Government council.
The politicians issued the threat at the ward and council inauguration of members of Grassroot Development Initiative in Tai Local Government Area of the state.
Supervising minister of education, Nyesom Wike had mocked the state’s agricultural project calling on the people of Ogoni to reject such projects.
According to him, “there is nothing called new PDP. They have been defeated in court. They have been defeated in INEC. Nobody will challenge Mr. President. For all those intimidations, be rest assured you will get all the necessary protections within the ambits of the Law. Nobody will intimidate you.
“You must know people who mean well for you. You all have to know that the Ogonis are not monkeys. When I hear people say they have something for Ogoni, the only industry they have for you is a banana industry. Holy Ghost fire for all the people, for all those that conspired that there is nothing that is good for the Ogoni people except to make them have bananas. Ogoni people have paid their dues. They are not meant to be eating bananas”.
Also, a former Senator from the state, Lee Maeba said he would personally take the lead to ravage the plantation.
“We are not monkeys and we are not growing bananas at all. They have been talking on the radio that they uncovered a plot. There is no need to uncover anything, I said I will lead a well-meaning protest of all the Ogonis and by the time we return there will be no more bananas”, he threatened.
Maeba also alleged that the banana plantation was one of the factors undermining the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report:
“I said it in Bori that after listening to the cries of the Ogonis, they agreed that the soil of Ogoni is contaminated and there must be clean-up and compensation. When the compensation team arrived from New York, Pharo led a group of agriculturist and went to establish banana farm and told them that the soil is good that they should not pay compensation; they should not clean up the land.
“But with those bananas, they are using to deceive our people, to deceive the United Nations, to deceive the Federal Government that the soil is clean. We shall clean up the bananas and clean up the soil”, he added.
In a related development, a former Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Chibudum Nwuche has said Governor Amaechi would be made to account for all the allocations he had received.
Nwuche accused Governor Amaechi of playing politics with fund meant for the state.
“What pains me most is that somebody we freely gave a mandate to and placed in Government House has forsaken the state and going on adventures.
“He has bought a plane. He will carry journalists and they will go to a place called Songhai Farms, they will go to one medical centre, they will go to one school. They go to one school all the time as if we have no schools before.
“How can you spend over N3 trillion only on schools and medical centres. I challenge our Governor to a debate. He should come out and account to the people what he has been doing with our money for the past 6years”, he said.
Nwuche who is also the immediate past acting National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, tasked the people of the state to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election.
The banana plantation is one of the major agricultural projects of the Rivers State government, which is jointly owned by Union De Initiative SA DE CV of Mexico and has taken about the sum of N10 billion.
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