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Shoot Me If You Can, Amaechi dares Rivers CP

The feud within PDP, still changing dimension just as Governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi yesterday dared the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, to shoot him and make good his threat to deal decisively with anyone or group that stages a street protest without obtaining official permit.
The governor had threatened to organise a protest over the rising insecurity in the state soon and promised to lead the demonstration.
Amaechi said this while addressing the people of Orashi Kingdom, who paid him a solidarity visit over the political crisis in the state.

“We have told our chiefs to get ready, once we get a date, once we get people from overseas, they are Nigerians, they will join us. We will give you the date.

“I have told the CP to be ready to shoot me because I will be in front. I will not sit here and wait for you to march here and give me letter. Instead, I will keep the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, here and then I will march down with you people.

“Then I will give the SSG a letter to give to the Federal Government, so that if they want to shoot, they can shoot me because we have a right to express our views.

“You have the right to criticise me. I am not particularly a good man. There is nobody that is a perfect man in the world, is there any?”

Amaechi praised the courage of the people for coming to his office despite efforts by the police to prevent them from entering Port Harcourt.

“You people are by far stronger than me. I got a report yesterday (Monday) very late at night that the police had planned to stop you people. I was thinking that once you see policemen, everybody will run into his house.

“But you must learn how to use these things. You should have recorded them so that you can show to the world how much a tyrant our commissioner of police is.

“Let us assume the CP is coming to protect, he cannot say he banned public protest when it is part of your fundamental human rights, which are there in the constitution.

“So, is his (Mbu’s) personal order now superior to the constitution? Now, he stops people who want to freely express their views. Let me thank you for coming.

“What you showed them is what we call people’s power. That you came out despite the fact that police blocked all the roads looking for people in buses and stopping them from driving out, yet you still passed that road and came here. It shows that you are stronger than me, you are more courageous than me,” the governor said.

Amaechi regretted that injustice had been done to the people by those who had been forcibly snatched the state’s oil resources from them.

He noted that each time he tried as governor to protect the interest of his people, he was labelled a rebel.

“They have taken oil wells from the Etche people, they have taken from the Kalabari people and they have taken from Andoni. There is a claim by our sister state in Egbema, and you also have boundary with Delta, how do we know they won’t also claim that from the Delta area? How do we know if we close our eyes, the one they are claiming from Egbema they won’t take it from us? “And you can never tell how we will be losing our oil wells every day. Every day we will be losing our oil wells; if I speak they say we are against government.

“Should I sleep as governor of Rivers State and do nothing? Orashi for now is one of the highest producers of oil in Nigeria and we say ‘Federal Government do something around there. What have we gotten?’ That is our argument, nothing more.

“No personal quarrel between me and anybody. It is a quarrel between Rivers State and the rest. We just have to defend our rights. We have a right to be Nigerians and Nigeria has the obligation to make us responsible citizens.

“We will be forever Nigerians; we will go nowhere else because we believe in Nigeria. But Nigeria must make us happy too so that we can say to the world we are proud to be Nigerians. We have been suffering.”

“My brother, Chibudum Nwuche, said we are not running an inclusive government. Part of the problem we are having is that our brothers who have gathered in Abuja have been hijacked by those who are not from Rivers State to cause confusion in Rivers and using just one weapon.

“I am taking a road to Chibudum’s village and I must complete it so that when he says inclusion I show him what we have done.

“The danger in electing them to power is that for four years, they will not be able to do anything. Reason is that for eight years they have gotten nothing. They have been out for eight years and they can’t wait to come in,” he said.

Amaechi advised the people to resist injustice, vowing to stand by them, no matter the obstacle on the way.

A traditional ruler in the kingdom, Mayor Umah, praised the governor for the development projects in the state.

He said that the governor’s performance had matched the aspirations of the people since he assumed office.

“We elected you to lead us in the state and you have not failed us. You have been performing well to the delight of the people of the state.

“We didn’t send you to Abuja to do the bidding of anybody, but to look after our interests and you have been doing that effectively. We are happy with you and if anybody doesn’t like that, leave them,” the monarch said.

Hundreds of policemen had tried to prevent the people from entering Port Harcourt, but were resisted by the people-National Mirror

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