The Rivers State government has advised a lawmaker representing the Port Harcourt Federal Constituency 2, Chinyere Igwe to surrender to security agencies.
Speaking over the weekend at an event in Gokana local government area of Rivers State, the Chief of Staff to the Rivers state governor, Emeka Woke said no amount of “blackmail” will discourage the State government from prosecuting the lawmaker whose filling station had been sealed up for allegedly being involved in illegal oil bunkering activities.
Woke insisted that the State government has a constitutional obligation to decisively deal with anyone involved in acts inimical to the Nigerian economy.
According to him “Anybody who allows his business premises to be used for illegal oil bunkering, that premises will be shut down Whoever, allows his hotel to harbour criminals bent of destabilising the State, we will deal with you according to the law.”
“I listen to Chinyere Igwe yesterday talking about ingratitude. A man who had been retired politically. This is the man who spent only one term in the House of Representatives and came back home. The immediate past governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, chased him out of Port Harcourt and he ran to Abuja. He even contested on the platform of ACN then, and lost woefully”.
The Chief of Staff also warned Igwe to desist from “misleading” the public with claims that he was being politically victimised.
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