Amaechi's Palliative Measures, Another White Lie To Rivers People –ACN

The Rivers chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, says three weeks after Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi's broadcast on fuel subsidy removal outlining a catalogue of programmes he planned to put in place to cushion the effects of the contentious subsidy removal in the State, nothing has happened.

Demanding that governor Amaechi should fulfill his new year promise to the people, the ACN in a press statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Jerry Needam said the failure to live true to his broadcast to launch a mass transit, peg transport fares on a stipulated number of routes and establishing discount markets at designated points in Port Harcourt metropolis has confirmed its fears on the workability of the programme.

Regretting that such an important broadcast to the people could easily be swept under the carpet, the ACN spokesman, Jerry Needam said Amaechi has only succeeded in sowing seeds of distrust and unreliability.

The ACN said it wonders what new explanations Governor Amaechi will give for his failed promises, stressing that Labour/Federal Government agreement on N97.00 pump price should not be an excuse not to go on with his intended subsidy for the Rivers people.

The statement further noted that the transport fare still remains what it was during the nationwide strike with the concomitant rise in market prices. Yet, the Amaechi administration continues to act a lame-duck in floating the magic wand called discount markets.

“In the past we had accused the Amaechi led-government of acting before thinking and deceiving the Rivers people by its deeds, this fuel subsidy removal broadcast has just vindicated us. We therefore make bold to ask Amaechi to disengage from mere rhetorics and face the real challenges of good governance and concrete actions.###