₦airaland Forum

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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lacasera14:
We are used to their empty threats