Expert Urges RSG To Preserve Historical Buildings

A Public Relations Consultant and the former National President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Mr Bobo Brown has called on the Rivers State government to ensure that colonial and historical buildings are not demolished but preserved for historical purposes, as it is done in other developed countries.

Mr Brown who was speaking in a lecture organised by the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation (RSNC) to mark her 40th anniversary, with the theme “State Media: The Way Forward” in Port Harcourt recently said that colonial buildings and similar institutions have historical value and need to be preserved.

According to him, “we need to let our government respect institutions and not to wake up anytime to destroy them. Let colonial and historical buildings and institutions be left for historical purpose, as it is done in other developed countires.”

Brown who was the former chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Council also pointed out that privatising public institutions is not the solution to the problems in the economy.

He commended the efforts of the present administration in the state led by Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, but quickly noted that the people of the state will be very interested, if  he will be able to beat the record that he had set in his first tenure.

The former NIPR president however advised the Chibuike Amaechi-led administration to try as much as possible to preserve the common history of the people of Rivers State.

Corlins Walter