Yuletide: Amaechi Reassures On Security

As Christians prepare for the Christmas celebration, Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has reassured Rivers people of his administration’s readiness to clamp down on armed robbers and put an end to the recent surge in criminality in the State capital Port Harcourt and other parts of the State.

To achieve this, Amaechi said the Army would be deploy to work with the police on the streets of Port Harcourt.

Governor Amaechi stated this yesterday in Port Harcourt at a thanksgiving service organised in his honour and  Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili by the Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt at the Corpus Christi Cathedral Church in Port Harcourt.

According to him, “If we could fight the militants, why can’t we fight armed robbers? We will put the Army on the streets until the armed robbers will run away”.

“We are tired of pleading with armed robbers to return their guns to the police. We will put the Army on the streets because we believe that the police needs support”.

“I will plead with those whose children are robbers to tell their children to stop armed robbery…”.

“The current one we hear is that there is a woman leading a gang of three, we will arrest her. For us as a state government, that will be our new year gift to our people, that woman and her gang will be arrested and prosecuted”, he assured.

Speaking on road projects, Amaechi said government would take advantage of the dry season to complete ongoing ones in the state.

“I hear your complaints, and I know you are angry about roads. For the Ada Geoge road, it will be completed, the contractor is slow, he gave us March, let us be patient, the only thing I will assure you of is that rainy season will not meet us on that road again. Another road you people complain of, is the Rumuepirikom Road, it is been worked on”, he said.

Governor Amaechi also called on the church to partner with government for national and state development.

“Let the church continue to be a holy church and a conscience to the society and the nation, the church should call public servants and our leaders to account for their roles in our lives”.

“Let the church pray that the numerous projects that we have started will be completed and pray for us so that God will give us wisdom to be able to continue from where we have stopped in our first tenure to the benefit of the people”, he said.