Ogoni Favoured More In Amaechi’s Administration – Dep Speaker

Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Leyii Kwanee, says the administration of Rt. Hon Chibuike Amaechi has shown more commitment to the development of Ogoniland than any previous government.

Hon Kwanee, who stated this on Tuesday when the Ogoni in Diaspora Organisation, USA paid him a courtesy call in his office, said Amaechi’s administration has favoured many Ogonis in top positions in the state and also provided infrastructural facilities such as good health centres, good roads and schools.

He noted that such developmental attraction are unprecedented in the history of Ogoni, and advised them to be weary of those who would misinform them from home about the activities of the Rivers State Government.

Kwanee also used the opportunity to commend them for what he called their understanding and appreciation for the need for unity in Ogoniland in order to key into Governor Amaechi’s developmental strides in Ogoniland.

The lawmaker urged Ogoni is in Diaspora to at all times promote the image of Ogonland in USA and other western countries, while condemning the attitude of denting the image of the state government that “at the end of it all, it would boomerang on the Ogoni ethnic nationality”.

He thus appealed to them to team up with the present administration to find solutions to the problems facing Ogoni nationality, saying that when this is done, the Amaechi-led government will be moved to do more for Ogoniland.

Earlier, the Executive Director of Ogonis in Diaspora Organisation, Chief Ambrose Sorbarikor Kii, said they were in the state to canvass for the unity of Ogoni elites towards the development of the area and to investigate the information that the Ogoni were marginalised in the scheme of things.

Kii stated that the team will go round to all nook would and crannies

of Ogoni land to determine the extent of development in Ogoni and report back to members in USA with a view to putting the record straight.