Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, says the trend where public office holders shortchange their kinsmen in a bid to enrich themselves is highly repulsive and condemnable. Wike expressed his feelings while addressing a mammoth crowd during the inauguration of a section of the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity road at the weekend.
He disclosed that the Queen’s Town erosion menace would have been tackled if the company in charge of the project had not varnished into thin air after collecting N2 billion mobilisation fee. Governor Wike reminded Opobo people of the N3.1billion contract that was awarded when one of their sons was the Commissioner of Works to solve that problem.
The governor said, unfortunately, the company that was awarded the contract disappeared after it received the mobilisation fee paid to it. Governor Wike said it is baffling that their son could frustrate such development project attracted to the area, which would have solved the erosion menace and ended the threat of Queen’s Town being washed away.
“Sometimes, you wrote to me about the erosion in Queen’s Town. I told the Amayanabo the other day that the job was awarded when your son was Commissioner for Works. It was awarded to the tune of N3. 1bilion. The company collected N2 billion and it ran away from site. Amayanabo of Opobo, go and ask your son, who is that company that collected the money and refused to do the Queen’s Town shore protection,” he reiterated.
