RSSESC Blames Police For Auto Crash

The Rivers State Strategic Empowerment Scheme Committee (RSSESC) has blamed the Police for the auto crash of some beneficiaries in the ongoing Subsidy Reinvestent Programme (SURE-P) from Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, last Saturday.
Chairman of RSSESC, Committee, Rev. Minabi Dagogo-Jack accused the Police of exposing the participants of the SURE-P to untold danger, as Commissioner of Police ordered his men to attack law-abiding citizens invited by government for the biometric registration exercise at the council headquarters at Abua and Omuma Local Government Areas.
“We have almost concluded the biometric registration exercise in Abua-Odual before the Police surfaced in Omuma Local Government Area and chased out all the SURE-P beneficiaries from the council headquarters and locked up the council. But when Governor Amaechi heard the issue, he intervened and asked the participants to come to Government House to conclude the exercise.
Rev. Dagogo-Jack said that if the Police had not attacked the participants, the auto-crash would not have happened since beneficiaries would have no cause to travel down to Port Harcourt.
He however condoled with the family of Mrs Josephine Ake and six others who are undergoing treatment and prayed that the victims would soon recover from the shock of the unfortunate crash. Only Mrs Ake died from the crash.
“It is a pity that one of the victims died”, Dagogo-Jack said “but we are here to see the victims and also ensure that they get all the needed rightful medical treatment in order to return back to their homes healthy”.
He gave indication that the Rivers State Government would off-set the hospital bills for the treatment of the accident victims, and also ensure  that they get all the needed medical treatment, in order to return back to their homes healthy.”
Meanwhile, about 4,912 participants have received their payments according to the RSSESC Media and Publicity Sub-Committee Chairman, Jerome Okere.
Okere disclosed that the exercise was drawing to its end as the victims were in the 16th local government area to be registered, and therefore dispelled all propaganda levelled against the Committee as registering people for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
Okere added, “we are tired of this cheap popularity and lack of integrity and character by those whipping up public sentiments against the Amaechi led government. I assure them that despite their comments, the Rivers State Strategic Empowerment Scheme Committee will not be deterred in actualizing the reason for the scheme.