The Inter-Ethnic Network For Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi (INCRA) have described Governor Wike's foundation laying ceremony of a Secondary School in Ubima as another political charade amid excessive and unnecessary media hype with a view to politicising the event, considering the fact that Ubima is the hometown of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Honourable Minister of Transportation.
Ordinarily, we would have commended Governor Wike for finally mustering the political will and courage to initiate the building of a school after almost 3 years in office, thereby, breaking a major jinx on his administration, but we cannot reckon with the fundamental reasons for the Governor's choice to ignore an almost completed and well-equipped facility to start a new one rather than completing it and conserve funds and resources.
The Governor's decision is sufficiently wanting in good judgment, insight and solidity and elicits mediocrity. How can Governor Wike consciously encourage and supervise the vandalization of the Secondary School built by the Amaechi-led administration in Ubima which is 90% completed and abandon it to lay foundation for a new school with taxpayer's money under the prevailing economic hardship in the State just to spite Amaechi and mislead the unsuspecting members of the public into believing Amaechi refused to build a school in Ubima his hometown even after building same in other LGAs in the State.
If the Governor's motive for commencing a new Secondary School in Ubima was above boards, why did he not complete the School which the Amaechi-led administration built up to 90% completion before leaving office in May 2015? Why abandon it to start a new one even though he is fully aware it would cost the State lots of funds? Perhaps, Governor Wike needs to be reminded that he has unpaid salaries of workers to sort out before embarking on his spending spree on highly misplaced priorities.
The public may wish to know that Governor Wike has not been able to build any school in any part of Rivers State since the inception of his administration in 2015. The best he has done is the renovation of Government Girls Secondary School, Rumuokwuta at the cost of N4 Billion, very well above the amount it took the Amaechi-led administration to build and furnish each of the 24 Model Secondary Schools with state-of-the-art facilities, 500 room dormitory to accommodate 1000 students with complete sports facilities and well-equipped laboratories. In fact, it is on record that owing to the high standard of the Model Secondary School in Sakpenwa, Tai LGA, Governor Wike upon assumption of office, ceded the facility to the Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori now known as Ken Sari Wiwa Polytechnic.
We are deeply saddened over the Governor's unending proclivity towards giving political characteristics and colouration to every single project he embarks on at the expense of rationality, necessity and good governance. We are not only disgusted at the inability of the Wike-led government to resourcefully manage good programs, policies or projects inherited from the previous administration but also, at its willful destruction of every legacy the Amaechi-led government left behind.
The Governor must avoid politicising governance and using State resources to satisfy his political vagaries to the detriment of the people and device means to make the most of his short stay in the Brick House.
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