Dakuku Peterside, former director-general of the Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has criticised Nyesom Wike,
governor of Rivers, over the treatment of pensioners.
Pensioners in Rivers state recently took to the streets to
protest the non-payment of their gratuities and pension arrears.
Commenting on the development, Peterside said the Rivers
governor “should be ashamed” of his administration’s inability to pay
pensioners.
In a statement on Saturday, the former
NIMASA DG said Wike’s failure to pay the senior citizens is “callous and
inhuman”.
He said many of the pensioners are “already dead without
getting their due benefits”.
“Governor Wike should be ashamed that people who are old
enough to be his father have been abandoned to their fate, with many already
dead without getting their due benefits,” Peterside said.
“There is no greater wickedness than this, in fact, his
action is callous and inhuman. Here is a man who has received hundreds of
billions of naira in both federal allocation and internally generated revenue.”
“Since 2015, Wike has
not promoted a single civil servant, neither has he employed anyone. A brick
and mortar governor does not fit into proactive governance anchored on human
capital development, which is the main driving force of economic wellbeing
worldwide.
“Rivers youth have benefitted nothing under Wike. He prefers
to hire them for political rallies rather than create platforms through which
they can contribute to the economic prosperity of the state.”
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