Amaechi Mourns Victims Of Weekend Electrocution

Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has called on the church to pray for the souls of those killed in last weekend’s high tension cable electrocution of 10 passengers in Port Harcourt.

Describing the accident as painful, particularly, as it involved human lives, the Governor said government shares the grief with families of the affected victims, and urged Christians to put both the dead and the state leadership in their prayers.

Governor Amaechi who was speaking at a thanksgiving service for the successful graduation of Miss Ihuoma Mike Elechi, daughter of the Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Sports, Sir Mike Elechi as medical doctor, explained that the emphasis now laid on quality education was to enable government produce the needed manpower that would drive the system.

The governor who was represented by the State Commissioner for Information and communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari said the Amaechi Administration was determined to improve on the quality of education from primary to secondary school levels through the building and equipping of new model schools. Governor Amaechi further explained that the government embarked on the construction of health centres in all parts of the state to enable people have access to medical facilities and reduce infant mortality rate in the state.

“it therefore becomes pleasurable to celebrate when we have another medical doctor in the pool of medical personnel to serve the teeming population of the state,” he declared.

Recently, he recalled, the state government recruited medical doctors, among them corps members to fill the vacuum in the state public health system and redeployed to the Health centres and appealed to the people to patronise the centres for medical attention.

The governor congratulated Dr Ihuoma Mike Elechi for her brilliance in making her parents and the state proud, emphasising that when the state produces a star, it gives the opportunity to celebrate, and wished her well in her future endeavours.

The state Chief Executive used the occasion to request the church to pray for the present administration that God should continue to grant the leadership wisdom to pilot the affairs of the state.

He equally urged Christians to pray for the soul of those that lost their lives in the unfortunate electrocution incident in Port Harcourt.