P-Harcourt Refinery Repairs: Nothing To Celebrate Over FG’s $1.5b Approval – Wike

*Tasks FG on tackling insecurity instead of making
unverifiable claims

RIVERS State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that there is no
cause for cheers yet over the Federal Government’s approval of $1.5
billion to refurbish the Port Harcourt refinery.

Reason: Approval is not release and there had been series of
unfulfilled promises in the past.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today live programme,
Wike, who noted that fixing the refinery will create a lot of
economic activities and employment for the citizenry said it was
paradoxical that a refinery in a city where oil is produced is not
working.

Standing on past unfulfilled promises to refurbish the refinery,
he said: “Where is the oil being produced? Why is it that the
refinery where the oil is being produced is not working? We have
had a lot of promises, we have had a lot of talks and nothing has
materialized. Approval is not released. I am not going jubilate
because the Federal Government said they have approved $1.5 billion
for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt refinery. It is not
something to say Hallelujah.”

Wike also spoke on the worsening insecurity in the country
saying that amid security agencies’ claims of killing Boko Haram
insurgents and rescuing those abducted by bandits, there appears to
be deception.

He said: ”We must fight insecurity squarely or we are doomed. It
is not by coming on television to say ‘we killed 200 bandits’ that
nobody saw. You say you killed 200 Boko Haram, which nobody saw.
They kidnap 200 students, in the next 10 hours they are released.
Tomorrow, they kidnap 300 students, within 48 hours they are
released. Who is deceiving who?”

The governor, who lamented that when he was faced with the
problem of kidnapping and cultism in Rivers State that the Federal
Government politicised it, said, ”I prayed to God that they see the
problems we were seeing and now there is insecurity all over.”

On the constant changing of Rivers Commissioners of Police,
which had been done 18 times and whether he has hope in the latest
changes, Wike said: ”I will say that I’m handicapped, the Police
belong to the FG, the army belongs to the FG. What do I do? The FG
wants to sabotage me.”

*Tasks FG on tackling insecurity instead of making
unverifiable claims

RIVERS State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that there is no
cause for cheers yet over the Federal Government’s approval of $1.5
billion to refurbish the Port Harcourt refinery.

Reason: Approval is not release and there had been series of
unfulfilled promises in the past.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today live programme,
Wike, who noted that fixing the refinery will create a lot of
economic activities and employment for the citizenry said it was
paradoxical that a refinery in a city where oil is produced is not
working.

Standing on past unfulfilled promises to refurbish the refinery,
he said: “Where is the oil being produced? Why is it that the
refinery where the oil is being produced is not working? We have
had a lot of promises, we have had a lot of talks and nothing has
materialized. Approval is not released. I am not going jubilate
because the Federal Government said they have approved $1.5 billion
for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt refinery. It is not
something to say Hallelujah.”

Wike also spoke on the worsening insecurity in the country
saying that amid security agencies’ claims of killing Boko Haram
insurgents and rescuing those abducted by bandits, there appears to
be deception.

He said: ”We must fight insecurity squarely or we are doomed. It
is not by coming on television to say ‘we killed 200 bandits’ that
nobody saw. You say you killed 200 Boko Haram, which nobody saw.
They kidnap 200 students, in the next 10 hours they are released.
Tomorrow, they kidnap 300 students, within 48 hours they are
released. Who is deceiving who?”

The governor, who lamented that when he was faced with the
problem of kidnapping and cultism in Rivers State that the Federal
Government politicised it, said, ”I prayed to God that they see the
problems we were seeing and now there is insecurity all over.”

On the constant changing of Rivers Commissioners of Police,
which had been done 18 times and whether he has hope in the latest
changes, Wike said: ”I will say that I’m handicapped, the Police
belong to the FG, the army belongs to the FG. What do I do? The FG
wants to sabotage me.”