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| RIVERS State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi |
The governor said this through his
Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari,
in an interview with our correspondent in Port Harcourt.
Amaechi described the allegations that
he inflated the cost of the jet by $10m as unfounded and a figment of
the imagination of those spreading such false information.
According to him, the allegations were
targeted at distracting the state government from its responsibility of
developing the state.
“The state government has never
announced that the aircraft was purchased for $57m. That statement did
not come from us. The aircraft was bought for US$45m. We see all these
as a distraction,” Amaechi said.
Meanwhile, two aides to the Rivers State
Governor Rotimi Amaechi, and the Caretaker Committee Chairman of
Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Mr. Chikodi Dike, were on Saturday
barred by a team of policemen from entering the council secretariat.
The two aides were the Chief of Staff,
Rivers State Government House, Mr. Tony Okocha and the Commissioner for
Agriculture, Mr. Emmanuel Chinda.
The incident, which occurred around
2.30pm, came barely 24 hours after a team of policemen had sealed off
the council secretariat allegedly on the orders of the Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu.
Workers of the council and visitors on
the premises were also ordered out of the secretariat by the policemen
on Friday before sealing off the place.
Speaking with newsmen outside the
premises of the council, Okocha described the development as a coup
against the people of Obio/Akpor and the people of the state in general.
Dike had earlier gone to the secretariat
for the monthly environmental sanitation, but was warned by the
fierce-looking policemen that had mounted guard at the gate of the
council secretariat for two days to stay away.
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