The Senator representing Rivers
South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Magnus Abe, has
declared that Rivers State does not belong to a group of people or an
individual.
He said the state was not a
conquered territory.
The Senator said no one should
assume the position of God in the state.
Abe said this yesterday during a
visit to the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Prince
Chibudom Nwuche, at his country- home in Ula-Upata in Ahoada-West Local
Government Area of the state.
He stated that it was wrong for
any individual to claim to have conquered the state.
The lawmaker has recently been in
a faceoff with the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state,
the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi.
Abe added that there must be
equity, justice and fairness in the affairs of the state and nobody should
subjugate the state in the manner that they feel.
Abe said, “Let me make it
abundantly clear that we are in this state, nobody has conquered Rivers State;
this is not a conquered territory. The Rivers people I know are the same people
who have stood against oppression when it mattered most.
“It is not new that we are
fighting for the future of our state; our fathers did it before us.
“They confronted stronger powers
than the ones we are confronting today and they established the fact that this
is a land of free people.”
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