Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of
Transportation and former Governor of Rivers State, says he has never asked any
cultist to kill anyone in order to win election.
Amaechi said this while
challenging cultists in the state to come out and present proves of such
meeting to the world.
The Minister spoke when he
visited families of those killed by cultists on New Year day in Omoku, the
headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state.
Amaechi assured the bereaved
families that those involved in the killing will face the wrath of the law.
He also attacked the current
administration of Governor Nyesom Wike, over its alleged failure to protect the
people of the state.
According to Amaechi, “The only
thing I can assure you is that the perpetrators of this act will be brought to
justice. They cannot run away from it. They can’t get away with this.
“I was at the hospital to see a
little boy that was shot, and his father and mother killed. How do you want
that little boy to live? How would he cope in life? They must pay for their
actions.
“The first responsibility of a
leader is to keep his subjects alive. The reason why the constitution puts
every governor on oath, to swear that you will protect lives and property is
because if there are no lives, there will be nobody to lead.
“If there is anybody on earth
that said that I have met with him as a cultist to take lives, let him come
forward. If there is anybody on earth that will tell you that I have sat with
him in a meeting and we planned to go and kill people to win election, let the
person come forward.
“Let me tell you why I will not
do such; it is not because I’m afraid of anybody, it is because I’m afraid of
God.
“I doubt that God was happy the
day they killed 23 persons in Omoku. I doubt that God was happy the day they
killed people in Omerelu or at Egbeda or at Andoni or at Ogbunabali or wherever.”
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