Rivers
Senator Pledges To Sponsor Indigenes Hip Bill
The Senator representing
Rivers East Senatorial District, Senator George Thompson Sekibo has pledged to sponsor a bill to protect the rights of indigenes if re-elected into the Senate in 2015.
Sen. Sekibo who made the pledge in his response to a request by the People’s Democratic Party National Youth Reap, River Chapter during a visit at his residence in Port Harcourt, said it was unfair that non-indegenes who contribute to the development of their places of residence would not be allowed to enjoy certain rights and privileges of where they reside.
He assured that he would push the bill to a conclusion while urging them to ensure that they voted for PDP in the 2015 general elections and advised them to eschew violence and carry out a door to door campaign instead.
He charged the youths on wisdom, proper organisation and comportment during the 2015 general elections stating that for any meaningful development to take place, the human structure first needed to be developed before any other.
The senator said, “if you want to develop anything, you must first develop the human structure because it is the people that develop the system, if a person is not properly engaged, he opens his mind to the devil.
In his speech, the leader of the group, Comrade Warigbani Ezekiel, had demanded that the non-indegenes in any state of the federation be integrated fully into the scheme of things in their respective states of residence.
He assured the senator of the support of 1.7 million youths in the forthcoming generate elections while describing the senator as a competent, brilliant, humble and bold legislator, whom he said they believed would deliver on his electioneering promises.
Tonye Nria-Dappa