VIOLENCE MARS PRO-AMAECHI RALLY IN RIVERS, AMAECHI SAYS JONATHAN’s GOVERNMENT WORSE THAN ABACHA’s Guns boomed. Smoke filled the air. People were running and screaming. Vehicles were vandalised. That was the scene yesterday as militants disrupted a Save Rivers Movement (SRM) rally in Bori, the traditional headquarters of Ogoni and the seat of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG) George Feyii, an Ogoni; Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha and many allies of Governor Rotimi Amaechi were caught up in the violence. Their vehicles were riddled with bullets. The governor, alarmed at the scale of the violence, described President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration as worse than the late dictator Gen. Sani Abacha’s regime. Two persons were feared shot dead by the rampaging militants, who started shooting from 4 am at the venue of the SRM rally — the All Saints’ Anglican Church, Bori, not far from the Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori-Ogoni. The militants’ attack came exactly one week after the SRM’s rally billed for the Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Rumuola, Port Harcourt was disrupted by the police, with the representative of the Rivers Southeast Senatorial District, Magnus Abe, shot in the chest. He is still recuperating in a London hospital. Amaechi, who is also the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), later in an interview at the Government House, Port Harcourt, after inspecting the shot and vandalised vehicles at 4:45 pm, also accused the Federal Government of desperation over the 2015 elections, adding that Jonathan wants to win at all costs, even if people die. Amaechi insisted that the disrupted Bori rally must be repeated on Saturday and he promised to attend. Some commissioners, Amaechi’s allies, top government officials, leaders and supporters of the SRM ran into the bush to prevent being shot by the rampaging militants. Bori people and students scampered to safety.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:47:33 +0000
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