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Rep Lauds Amaechi Over Loans
A member of the National Assembly, Dr Sokonte Davies, has commended Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s foresight for taking bank loans, saying, tying such loans to capital projects is a wise decision.
Davies who made the commendation in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt said taking the loans was imperative because, as he put it, Rivers people would remember the governor for projects executed and not necessarily for programmes initiated by his administration.
“I commend his foresight for taking bonds. It is a wise decision to tie the loans to projects. People will remember him for projects and not for programmes”, he said.
The lawmaker representing Degema/Bonny federal constituency in the House of Representatives, however, advised the governor to concentrate on projects already going on instead of awarding contracts for new ones, saying, if the present administration successfully completed 70 per cent of such projects, history would be favourable to the governor, as his successor would continue where he stopped in 2015.
Davies also commended the governor for saving one billion naira monthly for the state, noting that the gesture would enable the government that would take over in 2015 to take off on a sound footing.
Further giving support to the government’s policy, he said in developed countries, children depend on the savings of their parents to develop, and urged Rivers people to take a cue from the government and cultivate a proper saving habit.
“Look at farmers among us. They save. That is the culture. You don’t eat up everything. We have the rainy day and also periods of lean harvests”, he said.
The lawmaker equally lauded the developmental strides of the Amaechi administration, stressing that the administration had been on the right track in its infrastructural development initiative.
He expressed delight that contractors handling various road projects across the state had returned to sites, and appealed to the people to be patient with the present administration.
“The Governor is trying and he is doing well. It is the opinion of majority of Nigerians. Rivers State has once again become a massive construction site”, he asserted.
Donatus Ebi