Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has accused Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike of running “an uninspiring and purposeless administration”.
Peterside urged Wike to make the wealth and resources of Rivers available to all, and to urgently arrest the worsening refuse situation in Port Harcourt, the state capital, and environs.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, in a statement yesterday by his media team, was worried that since Wike became governor over four years ago, he has not created any employment opportunity, neither has he engineered any meaningful platform to engage the teeming Rivers youths.
He blamed the governor’s lacklustre performance on the absence of any blueprint to govern the state.
The statement reads: “Wike is the first governor in Rivers State not to have any visible vision or intention on how to govern the state. He just wakes up and does whatever he likes. Everything must revolve around him. He is Mr. know all and does all.
“In a state that has received over N1 trillion in the last four years, what can Wike really tell Rivers people he has done? No employment, no promotion of civil servants, no engagement of youths, nothing.
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“Please, this has nothing to do with politics, but about our dear state. Rivers people are complaining every day. Civil servants are complaining, pensioners, youths and women are complaining. What exactly is Wike doing with our money?
“Go to many public schools, you will weep and wonder if there is a government in Rivers State. Health centres are not any better; roads are collapsing, the state secretariat is in shambles and the governor is simply unconcerned. I have made many suggestions to the governor; if he needs help, we are here as Rivers people to help him. This is beyond politics, but it is the overall interest of the state that matters.
“Despite the huge funds Wike’s administration has received, no scholarship, no bursary, no training and no direction. We must not continue like this. We must help the governor since he has accepted failure on many occasions.”
Peterside also noted that mounting refuse in different parts of the state showed that Wike’s administration lacked the will to do the needful and save Rivers from an epidemic.
He added: “The Rivers governor has admitted failure in terms of sanitation. There are many youths who are ready to work and who have the capacity to salvage the situation. Wike should do the needful by employing them. We must rescue this state from impending collapse.”
Wike’s media aide Simeon Nwakaudu refused to comment on Peterside’s allegations.
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