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Demonstration Teachers In Rivers State Resumes Protest In January, As Rivers State Government Fails to Utilize Peace Process Brokered By D Commissioner Of Police

Minute Of The Meeting.

*Agenda:*
1. Solidarity song.
2. State of the nation/state.
3. Complaints by citizens.
4. A.O.B.

The meeting commenced at 2pm on Friday 25/11/2021

*State of the nation/state.*
SOOT & AIR QUALITY IN RIVERS STATE, KPO FIRE & FIRE FIGHTING IN RIVERS STATE, NDDC BOARD & FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY, DIRECT PRIMARIES IN POLITICAL PARTIES, END SARS PANEL REPORT IN RIVERS STATE, SUBSIDY REMOVAL AND 5000 NAIRA TRANSPORT.

1. SOOT & AIR QUALITY IN RIVERS STATE: the poor air quality in the States has been identified as a problem caused by the government, both federal and state through illegal refining known as kpo fire and sponsored by politicians and military.
After general discussion in the house, the RIVCSO Chairman Comr. Enefaa Georgewill concluded in agreement with the house that FG government should with a matter of urgency revamp all our refineries..
Also the Rivers State government should use same strength they put in during the covid 19 law enforcement and go round editing down on all the illegal refineries..

2. FIRE FIGHTING IN RIVERS STATE: Comr. Barile Rufus urged Rivers State government to revamp all the fire trucks.
While Comr IkeGod suggested that government should acquire new fire trucks which the state can afford.
In conclusion the RIVCSO Chairman concluded that government should decentralised the fire station to deffent part of the state..

3. NDDC BOARD & FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY: The RIVCSO Chairman call on FG to immediately dissolve this current committee and setup a board immediately also urge the government to make the forensic audit public.

RIVCSO position here is that government has been given an ultimatum of 2 weeks for all this request to be carried out or RIVCSO will be left with no other option than to hit the road for a massive protest...

4. DIRECT / INDIRECT PRIMARIES IN POLITICAL PARTIES: The organisation has made it's stand for direct primaries and call on President M. Buhari to assent to the bill as passed by national assembly.

5. END SARS PANEL REPORT IN RIVERS STATE: It is worrisome that up till now the report of the #EndSars panel has not been made public in River State so the Rivers State Civil Society Organisation has called on the Rivers State government to make public The Rivers State #endsars panel of enquiry report.

6. SUBSIDY REMOVAL AND 5000 NAIRA TRANSPORT: Comr. Barile Rufus called the subsidy a scam by FG, say that there is no justification that Nigeria is even paying subsidy nor importing fuel.

RIVCSO Gender Officer. Comr. Madam Eseoghene Aboze called citizens to make them self available for a massive protest when it's called for saying that government is doing what they are doing because the citizens are docile.
While the Chairman Comr Enefaa Georgewill call on the federal government to use the 5000 naira and fix all our refineries before talking of subsidy removal.

*A.O.B*
Comr Barile Rufus. The leader of Ahoada LGA workers who's salary has been owed for years said that they went to see the permanent secretary to know their stand and also inform governor Wike about their proposal for their payment.
While the chairman said that they shouldn't relent and that they are giving government from now till December ending if nothing is done then they should get ready for a massive protest by January.

Ikoku 4 update:
The RIVCSO will be going to Bayelsa next week following the petition against Sp. Benson Adetuyi by RIVCSO.

The Inspector General of Police has minuted the petition RIVCSO wrote against Sp. Benson Adetuyi to zone 16, Bayelsa. Accordingly, zone I6 wrote to us to come prove our case.

Already RIVCSO has sent mobilization fees to the representing Lawyers a total of 50,000 naira. 25,000 naira each to two of the Lawyers.
The payment was made by RIVCSO Chairman through his personal fund based on the urgency of the time and lack of funds in the Organization's coffers.

Recall that Sp. Benson Adetuyi was transferred to zone 16 Bayelsa soon after the escalation of the Ikoku 4 case.

Motion for adjournment was made by Comr Barile Rufus and seconded by Comr Dornubari Nwisaenee.

Solidarity song was chanted and the meeting came to close at exactly 3:44pm.

Minute Of the meeting was taken by RIVCSO assistant media coordinator
Comr Mazi IkeGod Ikenwachuku.

Exoneration not Pardon

Ogoni’s have over the past 2 decades consistently demanded that an admission that the quasi-judicial process which resulted in the conviction of the Ogoni 9 was a mockery of justice orchestrated by the military government with the active collaboration of Shell to quell community demands for resource and ecological justice.
it is important to note that no civil society organization in Nigeria has asked for a presidential ‘pardon’ for Ken Saro-Wiwa, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine, who were unjustly murdered by the Sani Abacha dictatorship.
On the 22nd of October 2021, a select group of Ogoni leaders attended a parley at State House with President Muhammadu Buhari. Among other issues, the President stated that the ‘federal government will consider the request for the grant of pardon to finally close the Ogoni saga’.

“The President made this commitment to ‘consider’ a pardon immediately after he declared that “the unfortunate incidents of the early 1990s leading to the loss of lives of distinguished sons of Ogoni land and the collateral judicial processes are indelible in our memories”
What we the civil society groups are demanding is the complete exoneration of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8. It is also important to note that the President’s suggestion of granting a ‘pardon’ is tantamount to saying that the Ogoni 9 were guilty and rightly executed. We deem the proposal to ‘consider’ a pardon for Ken Saro-Wiwa and his comrades insensitive and offensive to their memory and that of other victims of environmental injustice. We also consider it a denial of the need to bring closure to the thousands of Ogonis who were victims of government-driven repression characterized by murders, rape, torture and forced exile.
The President also used the opportunity of the parley to state that the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Ltd (NPDC), had been granted license to re-open and operate OML11. It is pertinent to recollect that in 1993, Shell was forced to abandon its OML 11 operations located in Ogoni and pull out of the area. This was the direct outcome of passionate but peaceful campaigns by the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) led by Ken Saro-Wiwa. MOSOP had called the attention of the world to the poverty, neglect and environmental destruction which decades of oil exploitation had bequeathed on the Ogoni people. MOSOP had also demanded fairer benefits to the Ogoni people from oil wealth, as well as remediation and compensation for the ecological damage caused by the reckless activities of oil companies. These have still not been addressed.
The report of UNEP indicated massive soil and water contamination in Ogoniland, which has significantly compromised sources of livelihood and was slowly poisoning the inhabitants. It was only about 3 years ago, that the government began actual clean-up with the agency called HYPREP. It is therefore shocking that while the clean-up is ongoing, the government is prioritizing restarting of oil extraction in the same area being cleaned up, with all its polluting impacts.

Civil Society groups maintain that is important to reiterate that proposing an unnecessary ‘pardon’ for the Ogoni nine, seemingly in exchange for support to reopen OML 11, is in bad faith and capable to breeding conflict. If the President is interested in reversing the injustice which the murder of the Ogoni 9 represents, the appropriate action is to exonerate the Ogoni martyrs and apologize to the Ogoni people. Apologize for the destruction of their environment, the killing of their people, the loss of their livelihoods, the destruction of their villages, the forced exile of their people and the murder of their leaders
It is also pertinent to observe that the move to resume the extraction of oil in Ogoniland, happening against the backdrop of the contentious clean-up of polluted sites in Ogoni, raises fears and fuels cynicism. It is worrying that the government would think of resuming oil extraction in Ogoniland when the pollution of the last decades is yet to be cleaned, decrepit installations are yet to be decommissioned and the many recommendations of UNEP are yet to be fully complied with.
The ecological disaster in Ogoniland provides a cue for the government to take actions towards the clean-up of the entire Niger Delta .We advice the President to institute strategies for a region wide clean-up of decades of environmental pollution by setting aside $100 billion dollars as takeoff fund for clean-up.

Endorsed By:
1. Rivers state Civil society Organizations
2. Take it Back Movement
3. Ogoni Solidarity Forum
4. We the People
5. Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria
6. Health of Mother Earth Foundation
7. Media Awareness and Justice Initiative (MAJI)
8. Peace Point Development Foundation, Nigeria
9. Policy Alert, Nigeria
10. Kabetkache Women Resource Development Centre, Nigeria
11. People Advancement Centre, Nigeria
12. Lekeh Development Foundation, Nigeria
13. SWAYA, Nigeria
14. Rights Advocacy and Development Center (RADEC)
15. Community Development Advocacy foundation (CODAF)
16. Oilwatch Africa

Teachers protest at venue of NBA conference in Port Harcourt over unpaid salaries
Daily Post Oct 25, 2021 8:06 PM

Teachers of demonstration primary and secondary schools in Rivers State alongside the Rivers civil society organization on Monday, staged a protest at the venue of Nigeria Bar Association conference at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt.

The teachers are demanding the payment of their five years salaries.

The attendance of the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike at the event may have prompted the teachers to stage the protest at the NBA conference venue.

Some of the aggrieved teachers regretted that the state government has ignored their plights despite a series of protests over the issue.

The appealed to lawyers to prevail on the state government to obey the court of appeal judgement which was in their favour.

Also speaking on behalf of the protesters, chairman of the Rivers civil society organization Enefa Georgewill questioned the state government’s refusal to pay the salaries of the teachers for about five years.

According to him “the office of the Rivers State Governor is a creation of law and if a court of competent jurisdiction has given an order, for goodness sake everybody must obey.

“You said that they are collecting school fees therefore they should pay themselves but the question is; are they the vice Chancellor that is controlling the fund?

“We don’t have issues with the governor but we are saying that the governor should do well to obey the subsisting court order.

“That is not too much for the teachers to ask for.”

The chairman of the Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state, Samuel Nwanosike, who addressed the protesters, pleaded with them to leave the arena and advised that a meeting be held with the commissioner of police with the aim of resolving the issue.

He, however, denied that the state government was owing teachers, describing the claims by the teachers as a plot to tarnish the image of the state government in the presence of the lawyers.

He said “Governor Nyesom Wike is on record to have paid the salaries of even teachers he did not employ.”

The protesters later proceeded to the state police command headquarters where the commissioner of police, CP Friday Eboka, promised to invite stakeholders on a later date for another meeting.

(5-6 years salary being owed) watch the full Protest of Demonstration School Teachers in Rivers State Port Harcourt.

The demonstration school teachers lead by the Rivers State Civil Society Organisation (RIVCSO) took a protest to the venue of the Gathering of Lawyers in Nigeria holding in Rivers State Port Harcourt, and calling on the NBA Chairman to advise Governor Wike to obey court order and pay the teachers their backlog salary of 5-6 years which the court has ordered.

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Demonstration school teachers protest at Gathering of Lawyers in Nigeria holding in Rivers State

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#NoToRape #StopAbusingChildren

Mr. Chimaokwu Narrates How One Chinedu Raped And Defiled His 14 Years Old Daughter In Egbema, ONELGA Local Government Area...

Mr. Chimaokwu Equally Accuse The Police At Okuzi Division And Area Command In Omoku Of Compromise Because The Accused Is A Former Vigilante Head In The Area Who Enjoys Cordial Relationship With The Police...

RIVCSO Call For Justice For The Victim And Demand That The Commissioner Of Police Caution And Prosecute His Officers Who Are Notorious For Covering Crime And Criminality...

No To Rape And Defilement!

GENERAL NOTICE!

ALL VICTIMS OF MBA FOREX WILL BE PROTESTING TO EFCC NATIONAL HEADQUATERS ON WEDNESDAY,11TH AUGUST, 2O21.

CONVERGENCE POINT: MBA FOREX OFFICE AT SUITE B102, STICKS & STONES PLAZA, 103 ADETOKUMBO ADEMOLA CRESENT, WUSE 2, ABUJA.

TIME: 8AM

CALL: 07011857301

So sad RIP gallant officer

A REFUTAL OF THE STATEMENT BY SECRETARY TO THE RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT (SSG) DR. TAMMY DANAGOGO, COMMISSIONER FOR INFORMATION MR. PAULINUS NSIRIM AND MR. BRIGHT AMEWHULE, AT DIFFERENT EVENTS CONCERNING TEACHERS OF STAFF SCHOOLS OF RIVERS STATE OWNED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS WHOSE SALARIES WERE STOPPED BY RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT OVER FIVE YEARS AGO

The attention of Rivers State Civil Society Coalition and past students of the demonstration schools in Rivers State has been drawn to a statement credited to the SSG, Dr. Tammy Danagogo on May 1, 2021, and Mr Paulinus Nsirim and Mr Bright Amewhule on live Radio appearance concerning teachers of staff schools of Rivers State owned tertiary institutions whose salaries were unlawfully and arbitrarily stopped by the Executive Governor of Rivers State, Chief Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike over five years ago. In their different statement, they likened the staff schools to a private ‘Pure Water Business’ of the tertiary institutions, insinuating that the teachers were not staff of Rivers State Government, a position the Government held before the teachers proceeded to the National Industrial Court presenting their appointment and confirmation letters, Rivers State Identity Cards as well as the Conditions of Service of their various institutions for arbitration on the matter.

After listening to the defences of both Government and the teachers and careful scrutiny of the aforementioned documents of teachers, the court ruled in favour of the teachers on June 13, 2018, stating that the teachers’ respective employment were valid and subsisting; that the Governor’s directive stopping the payment of teachers’ salaries was unlawful, null and void among others. A copy of the judgement was presented to the Governor Chief Barrister Nyesom Wike by the National Labour Congress Chairman, Comrade Ayuba Wabah together with his Rivers State counterpart, Comrade Beatrice Itubo right in the Governor’s office. The lawyer representing the teachers also wrote the Attorney General of the State as well as the Vice Chancellors and Rector of the Universities and Polytechnic respectively, to intimate them of the development and the need to pay the teachers.

However, on the same day the Judgment was delivered at the National Industrial Court, teachers were served with a Notice of Appeal, an indication that Government pre-empted the judgment. Expectedly so, because Government could not and cannot controvert the statutory employment of the teachers. The Court of Appeal on October 30, 2020, struck out the appeal sought by the Rivers State Government, for lack of merit.

As a CSO Coalition and past students of this schools, we wish to enlighten the agents of the Rivers State Government on issues of recruitment in the tertiary institutions, since by their statement; they have shown a very high level of ignorance on the subject matter. Firstly, the Body responsible for recruiting staff of the tertiary institutions is the Governing Council. This Body is appointed by (and reports to) the Governor on all issues they undertake in the institutions including staff recruitment. Therefore, any employment undertaken by the Governing Council is viewed as having been undertaken by the Government of the day. The appointment of the teachers followed prescribed due process just as any other staff of the institutions with most of them putting in over twenty five years in service at the time of stoppage of their salaries

Secondly, the staff schools like other primary and secondary schools are made up of teaching and non-teaching staff. The non-teaching staff are clerks, typists, messengers, labourers, cleaners, laboratory attendants, minders, etc. The non-teaching staff of these same staff schools are still being paid salaries by Rivers State Government till date, while the teachers and their families were singled out for deprivation, starvation, frustration and mortification to date, many of whom have been lost to death. The question begging for the these Government Agents to address is: could they please explain to the general public and the people of Rivers State in particular, the parameter(s) this Government used to decipher that the non-teaching staff of the staff schools are employees of Rivers State Government, for which the Rivers State Government pays their salaries to date and the teachers, employees of a private enterprise of the tertiary institutions for which the Rivers State Government denies them enjoyment of their salaries for over five years.

They may be excused if they claimed ignorance of the mode employment takes place in the tertiary institutions. However, they cannot claim ignorance of the judgements of both Industrial and Appeal courts. If not for anything else, as a Coalition and past students, we have earlier held a press conference and carried out two peaceful protests to Rivers Government House on the subject, showcasing the two court judgements which were also extensively broadcast in various local and international print, audio and audio-visual media. To still act in the manner they have done after the teachers obtained two court judgements ruled in their favour, should not be seen as ignorance but a deliberate attempt to ignore or twist the facts and set aside the judgements of two courts of competent jurisdiction as the National Industrial and Appeal courts.

It should be seen as it truly is a blatant disregard for the Judiciary by the Executive arm of Government championed by no less a personality than these representative of the Rivers State Government. It is a stubborn display of political rascality tantamount to political thuggery. The statement was issued also with the intent to rape the justice the teachers obtained, with utmost disregard for the rule of law as well as hoodwink the general public and the good people of Rivers State.

This is to say the least, callous, obscene and unexpected of a Government headed by a Lawyer and a member of the body of benchers. Furthermore, their statement portrays the present Government of Rivers State under Chief Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike as lawless. The Rivers State Civil Society organization as the foremost CSO coalition and the former students of these schools on behalf of the affected teachers therefore demand the Executive Governor of Rivers State, should call his agents to order and commence payments of these dying teachers as instructed by the Highest Court of the Land as far as industrial dispute are concerned. Failure to pay these teachers at the end of August, we will be left with the option to mobilize to the Rivers State Government house by way of protest.


FOR AND ON BEHALF OF:

RIVERS STATE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION-

COM. ENEFAA GEORGEWILL

PAST STUDENTS OF DEMONSTRATION SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE

MR. KPANIKU JUSTICE

Rivers Civil Society Organisations holds her monthly general meeting as follows:

Venue: Social Action, 33 Orominike Lane,Dline,Portharcourt.

Date: Friday, 30th July,2021.

Time: 1pm

Agenda: Electronic transfer Of Votes by INEC,Account Of Stewardship by Gov. Wike And General Hardship/Inflation In The Country.

Special Appearance: Asimu Adams, Esq.

A 6 years old boy In Etche Rivers state cries for help as his mother places his 2 legs inside hot water wey she boil for fire for just bring donut home from a stranger.
The boy dey in pains and e leg done pill finish
Make we help this pikin
This one na discipline or na wicked...
RIVCSO is on it.....

A middle-aged man, Basoene Wariboko, who spent about two months in a cell after being arrested by operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit of the police in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on trumped-up charges, has narrated his ordeal.

Wariboko spoke to journalists shortly after a visit to the state Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka, at his office in Port Harcourt, accompanied by the leadership of the Rivers State Civil Society Organisation

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I was leg-chained for over one month for allege kidnapping – Basoene Wariboko narrates ordeal in the hands of Anti-kidnapping unit, commended CP for his release


A middle aged man, Basoene Wariboko from Akuku-Toru local government area of Rivers state on Wednesday has said he was arrested on an allege charge of conspiring and kidnapped one King from Andoni local government area.


Basoene made this revelation when he paid a thank you visit with the Rivers state civil society organization to the office of the state commissioner of police at the commands headquarters in Port Harcourt.


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Basoene who narrated his ordeal in the hands of anti- kidnapping unit said he was arrested during a meeting, detained and leg-chained for one months and 19 days in the cell without water and food.




He said he wondered that he was allege to have conspire with his niece, who is at large and from Andoni to kidnapped the king, noting that he couldnot remembered when last he had talked with the said boy.

He added that despite the visit of his family to the unit, they bluntly refused them seeing him, not until the involvement of Rivers state civil society organization who took the matter to the state commissioner of police.

Basoene said a one on one interrogation was carried out in the presence of the CP, after which he ordered that he be released, and commended the commissioner of police, Friday Eboka for his intervention.


He stated that the CP was a God sent, noting that he would have been in jail on an issue he doesn’t known .

He also commended the Civil society organization and the media in the state for the prompt action taken.


Earlier, the chairman of the Rivers state Civil society organization, Enefa Geoegewill commended the CP for using his good office to release Basoene Wariboko who was wrongly accused of kidnapping and detained.


He also commended the improvement of security in the state since assumption of office of the CP and called his attention to the rising case of human part selling.


He added that some victims had call that the incident occurred in Etche local government area and some part of Onelga.

He urged the command to beam their searchlight on such flash points, in other to arrest the perpetrators.

Responding, the commissioner of Police, CP Friday Eboka vowed to deal with any erring office who oppressed the citizen or disband any unit with such records of dehumanizing in Rivers people.


He pointed out that he had disbanded such unit like Eagle crack unit who were oppressing the citizens.


CP Eboka lamented the rate at which the unknown gunmen killed their officers, but added that from reliable information such gunmen were linked to be lPOB and assured that such killings will not be accepted as all those involve if cut will face the wrath of the law.


He called for the collaboration of Rivers people in policing them, and urged that prompt information should be given to the police for prompt actions.

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RIVERS STATE CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATION (RIVCSO) courtesy visit to the Commissioner of Police CP Eboka Friday on Wednesday, July 7, 2021.

The members of RIVCSO led by their chairman Comr. Enefaa Georgewill on Wednesday 7/07/2021 paid a courtesy visit to the Rivers State Commissioner of Police.

The aim of the meeting was to felicitate with the commissioner on his prompt and swift response to the security issues in Rivers State.

The RIVCSO chairman thanked the commissioner and also pledged to work with him and his institution to assist in information that will bring a safer society and also report the excesses of some erring officers. He also commended the commissioner on the disbandment of the E-crack squad following their hostility on innocent citizens of the state. The RIVCSO chairman also used the opportunity to thank the commissioner again on his intervention which led to the release of one Basoene Wariboko, a middle aged man who was accused of kidnapping and was incarcerated for a month in police custody.

The RIVCSO chairman also brought to bear, the crime going on mostly at Etche LGA where it's alleged that human parts harvesters are cashing out freely as he cited a recent case of a lady in viral video who claimed to be another survivor.

Basoene Wariboko was given the opportunity to express himself and he thanked the commissioner for coming to his rescue and also thanked RIVCSO for its response in assisting him regain his freedom.

The commissioner of police CP Eboka Friday expressed joy and satisfaction towards RIVCSO's responsiveness in assisting the police and protecting citizens rights. He added that the Rivers State Police Command has been proactive in approaching security issues and bringing crime to its minimum while he commended RIVCSO and asked the general public to assist the police in curbing crime in the state by reporting any suspicious activities to the police.

In conclusion, the CP also responded to the crime mentioned at Etche and said that the command is still gathering information. He promised that once they make contact, they will swing into action but he also warned the citizens not to take all that is been thrown out on social media. He cited a situation where someone went on social media and made a claim of being kidnapped in Rivers State and said that the police made investigation to discover that the person claimed to be a Nollywood actor in acting, so he warned the citizens to be watchful and assist the police with information that will lead to the arrest of criminals in their locality.

The RIVCSO members in attendance were the Chairman Comr. Enefaa George-Will,
VP. Comr. Sophia Daniels,
Gender officer. Comr. Madam Eseoghene Aboze,
Assistant Media coordinator Comr. Mazi IkeGod Ikenwachuku Alex and Treasurer Comr. Deborah Sunday.