A govt that watches its people killed every day is irresponsible, has failed – Amaechi

Former Rivers State governor and current Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, has described a failed and irresponsible government as that which watches its people being killed and maimed on a daily basis.

While this apparently paints the picture of the current President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, which Amaechi is part of, the minister however used the description to reference to the government of Rivers State under Governor Nyesom Wike.

According to Amaechi, Governor Wike is running a failed government for not being able to provide good governance for the people of the state, and watching them being killed on a daily basis.

The minister stated this at the weekend during a rally where he received hundreds of supporters from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the state’s chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bera, headquarters of Gokana Local Government Area of the state.

“Every government has a responsibility to protect lives and property. The reason there is a government is because the people are alive. If a person dies there will be no government.

“Any government that watches its people killed every day is an irresponsible government. Governor Wike watches his people killed every day. I met a woman yesterday whose husband was killed in front of her with her son watching. It could have been any of you. I can assure you today that this government of Wike has failed.

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“When I was your governor, you slept and I kept awake. As governor, I chased away criminals to their holes. I know that the reason they are into crime was because they had no money for them. I knew that for you to stop a man from crime you need to provide an alternative means of livelihood. And to do that, I started building infrastructures. I built schools, hospitals and health centres.

“A lot of people were employed in each of the schools and health facilities I built,” Amaechi had said.

Although Amaechi was referring to RIvers State, reports abound of killings in different parts of the country, especially the middle belt areas of Plateau, Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states.

These killings allegedly perpetrated by herdsmen, have elicited calls from many prominent Nigerians for the sack of the security chiefs whom they argue have failed in their responsibilities to protect the citizenry.

 

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