Posted on: 01:41 Thu, 02 Jun 2016



Minister of Transport and former
Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi
Amaechi has said that immediate
past president, Goodluck Jonathan,
clearly turned his deaf ears to the
plight of the Ogoni people and the
Niger Delta in general.

Amaechi, who in his address at the
flag-off of the implementation of
the UNEC report on Ogoniland
acknowledged the presence of his
successor, Nyesom Wike, lamented
that he did everything within his
power as a governor to make
Jonathan implement the UNEC
report on Ogoniland.

He said, “We did everything
possible as a sitting government to
make the president implement the
UNEC report, everything. But the
report was not implemented after
all.”

Amaechi noted that the 1b dollar
clean up exercise would create jobs
for the people of the region.

He, however, thanked the President
Buhari -led administration for
coming to the aid of the Ogoni
people and for fulfilling part of his
campaign promises of cleaning up
the region.