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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