Garrison – Trans Amadi dualisation will cost about the same as the 50km Lekki Expressway?!? Is the terrain any more challenging? And we now employ foreign teachers in Rivers because all Rivers graduates have been gainfully employed?

Oil wells crisis about 2015 election, says Amaechi

Posted by: Bisi Olaniyi and Clarice Azuatalam, Port Harcourt Posted date: November 06, 2012 In: Featured, News | comment : 2

A new twist has been added to the oil wells dispute between Bayelsa and Rivers states.
It is all about 2015, Rivers State Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi said yesterday in Port Harcourt.
“There is rumour that they are emasculating me because of 2015. It is unfortunate. It is a non-issue,” Amaechi said at a press conference.
He added: “For now, I have no plan for 2015. I was shocked to hear of Lamido/Amaechi 2015 campaign, with branded vehicles in the North and many people are panicky.
“I am exhausted. I have not attended any 2015 meeting. If they are taking Rivers oil wells because of 2015, they should leave us alone.”
Amaechi said President Goodluck Jonathan had ordered a ceasefire in the dispute.
But, according to the governor, Rivers has just lost 46 oil wells to Abia State.
This is besides the ceding of five of Rivers oil wells in Soku to Bayelsa State.
It would have been worst, said the governor, but for last Monday’s protest in Abuja by Kalabari leaders from Akuku-Toru, Asari-Toru and Degema local government areas. About 71 oil wells in Abonnema, Akuku-Toru council areas would have also been ceded to Bayelsa State that day, Amaechi said.
The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) said President Jonathan called and directed him and his officials to stop speaking with journalists on the boundary dispute and oil wells. The same message was to be passed to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, to ensure peace, according to Amaechi.
It was gathered that both governors have been invited to the villa in Abuja by the President on Friday.
The Abuja protest was followed by a massive protest and news conference in Port Harcourt, with the Kalabari declaring that the move to cede their communities, oil wells and Soku Gas Plant to Bayelsa would be vehemently resisted.
Amaechi said: “46 oil wells belonging to Rivers State have just been given to Abia State. Soku is a Kalabari town in Rivers State. Mr. President directed this (yesterday) morning that we should stop addressing the press on the oil wells’ dispute with Bayelsa, if not for the journalist’s question on the issue.
“Seventy one oil wells in Abonnema (headquarters of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State), would have been given to Bayelsa State on the same Monday the Kalabari people went to Abuja to protest. They were not sponsored. They protested on their own. The boundary between Degema and Brass is not in dispute.
“If I am not the NGF chairman, I would have known what to say. As a people (Rivers) with one destiny, we will fight for our rights. Rivers people are happy with President Jonathan.”
Amaechi said the state government had no information on the disputed oil wells, adding that lawyers and stakeholders from the communities supplied the information.
President Jonathan is to meet next week in Abuja with stakeholders from Rivers and Bayelsa states on the boundary dispute and oil wells.
On the controversial Rivers State Contributory Social Services Levy (CSSL), which workers have been complaining about, Amaechi, who earlier yesterday met with the civil servants at the State Secretariat Complex, said he had ordered the stoppage of deduction from their pay.
He expressed displeasure that the deductions were made before Christmas, without considering the hardship the workers would face.
The governor said allocations of Port Harcourt, Obio/Akpor and Ikwerre local governments areas had been seized in the last two months over their refusal not to ensure a clean environment, especially for being unable to curtail the dirt from auto mechanics.
As soon as the mechanics’ workshops and the local government areas are kept clean, he would direct the release of the allocations, said the governor.
According to him, the action is to ensure a clean Rivers state, especially the state capital and its environs .
Amaechi said the government, next month, would obtain a N100 billion bond, to fund the 2013 budget.
But, he promised not to leave any debt for his successor.
The governor stated that the monorail project, for now, would be from the old Port Harcourt Township, popularly called Town, to Waterlines Bus Stop on Port Harcourt-Aba Expressway, which he described as economically viable.
The dualisation of the Garrison-Trans-Amadi Road in Port Harcourt has been awarded for N47 billion. Ada-George Road and the road off Peter Odili Road, which is to link Ogoni axis and Aba Road were his priority road projects.
The NGF chairman said Port Harcourt roads were being rehabilitated and would later have asphalt overlay to last for 15 years, with the reconstruction beginning immediately after the rains.
Amaechi noted that he targeted the construction of 750 model primary schools, but he decided to slow down a bit to furnish the completed 250 model primary schools. New ones would be storey buildings because of land constraint.
He assured that three of the model secondary schools in Eleme, Etche and Saakpenwa would soon be admitting students. The foreign teachers have arrived, with the local teachers being hired. He said schools would be completely free.
On power, the NGF chairman assured that the promise of uninterrupted electricity supply in Rivers State next month would be fulfilled, stressing that his administration was having challenges with the Power Holding of Nigeria (PHCN), which did not allow the state government to hook up to its system.
The governor said there had been improvement in the security situation in Rivers State, with no successful robbery in Port Harcourt in the last two months.
He, however, admitted that there had been security challenges outside the state capital, especially kidnapping.
Many policemen have been sent to Omoku, headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area.

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Mark/Rochas vs Lamido/Amaechi. I don't think Lamido stands a chance.

wow, so amaechi could seize a local governments allocation because according to him, their surroundings are untidy, are there no other ways to punosh them. Nigeria is doomed with these leaders.
I think Amaechi is about to be played dirty by gej since he is going about talking after he was asked not to.
Anyway gej is not going anywhere 2015, if he dabbles to contest, then he will be the first Nigerian president to lose an election

IMAGINE!!

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will ruin naija

See as e dey complain for oil wells As FG dey reallocate d oil wells to other states dem dey reduce ein monthly chopings

crude oil is really clogging the brains of our leaders....looking forward to when the wells will dry up and leaders starts using their heads properly.

If because of 2015 the federal government is doing that, FG are just wasting their time. There are many credible people all over the country.

The only way out is delivering of good governance.

It's a pity.

And we now employ
foreign teachers in Rivers because all Rivers
graduates have been gainfully employed?

r there no rivers graduate among Dangote's drivers?

THE FEAR OF MR PRESIDENT , IS THE BEGINING OF ENJOYING YOUR MONEY , AFTER YOU LEAVE OFFICE.

Amaechi is a very wicked man, he could afford to spend $45m on a jet while holding unto LG money cos of sanitation or actually he used the money to add to buy jet to pay with new allocation or he simply locked the funds in a time account to acrue interests. Bad man, we dey wait make your tenure end, u go see pepper.

if this oil dry up, then what will Nigeria do?

Gov. Amaechi is a very dangerous man... Wat powers does he have to withhold local council funds... N de local council chairmen are all quiet n probably begging him... Rivers state is in shambles... No functional social infrastructures..wit de kind of billions accruing to dis state every month.. Dis kind of things maks me weep.... Akwaibom is not too far for him to go n see de uncommon transformations going on der..... Mak i no vex cos if i vex.... Walahi!!!!...

46 oil wells given to Abia? Can Gov. T. A. Orji do something meaningful with it?

Na today?

DeCleff: 46 oil wells given to Abia? Can Gov. T. A. Orji do something meaningful with it?

The clown is still complaining that there is no money oooo.

Shame on Amechi, shame on all rivers people.
You have all the damn oil wealth but no single road to drive freely in portharcourt and you are still collecting loan.
Go to calabar and see for your self how government money contruct and maintain roads.
Give Akwaibom people a call and they will tell you what brand is called JULIUS BERGER.
I spend 3 hours minimum everyday, in a suppose 10 minutes drive, in east west trying to drive back from work cos of bad roads and you here ranting.

but 2015 is far now, the man says he is exhausted...let him take a break, we his citizens are praying for him.

ojubi: Shame on Amechi, shame on all rivers people.
You have all the damn oil wealth but no single road to drive freely in portharcourt and you are still collecting loan.
Go to calabar and see for your self how government money contruct and maintain roads.
Give Akwaibom people a call and they will tell you what brand is called JULIUS BERGER.
I spend 3 hours minimum everyday, in a suppose 10 minutes drive, in east west trying to drive back from work cos of bad roads and you here ranting.

Amaechi tried very well in his first tenure, bt seems to slow down dis time..it doesnt call for shame on Rivers people.

Sir, point of correction, East west Road is a federal road, not state. The FG have bn awarding reconstruction & dualisation of the road since Obj regime, & it has recieved over 1,753 patch works since then.
Nwanne ighotago?

Ameachi should please keep quiet and not divert attention from the issue. Even if he habours an ambition of running with whoever come 2015, let it sink into his skull that the ambition shall suffer a still birth like that of his mentor Peter Odili did in 2007. In a state where roads in the capital city are impassable, he had the crude longing to acquire a jet for his private use owing to 'secdurity reasons' as declared by his Commissioner For Inforemation. Go to Iwofe, Elipariwon, Elelenwo and so may other off roads in the city. they are eyesores. If it pleases his fellow cult members, let them cease all the wells. afterall, when the wells were left for him, all he did was to buy jets.

that's what I am talking about! seizing a local government's allocation for such flimsy excuse? what sort of government are we running in Nigeria? the local governments councils need be totally independent of state/federal governments if the objectives for which they were created will bw met

For an issue that has been on since 2002 and a supreme court jugement deciding on it among others, its very misleading to drag in politics to this. Amaechi should face the issue and stop blackmailing the president with his ambition and politics of 2015. Of all people, Amaechi should know that power belongs to God as is emergence as governor and failure of his predeseccessor Odili to clinch the presidency has shown. Even if there is a 2015 Agenda, is Amaechi banking on Rivers state allocation to run is ambition?

Amaechi is sounding too loud. He should know that politics can make or mar! All depends on how he goes about it.