The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Ibim Semenitari, has disclosed that the life of her boss, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, is under threat.
In a statement signed by the Commissioner on Thursday in Port Harcourt, Semenitari alleged that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Joseph Mbu, redeployed the governor’s Escort Commander, in charge of his Convoy, because the “Escort Commander had refused his directive to furnish (the CP) with prior information of the movement of the Governor.”
The Commissioner stated that under normal circumstances, “the Escort Commander is not in charge of the Governor’s Protocol and cannot have prior knowledge of the governor’s movement, especially in the prevailing circumstances regarding security in the state.”
She added that, “this would be the first time, since Governor Amaechi assumed office in 2007, that a Police Commissioner would be requesting prior information of his movement,” stating further that, “as far as we know, this is an exception rather than the rule.”
The Commissioner expressed fear that, “the fact that CP Mbu waited for the Governor to travel out of Port Harcourt to issue the invitation to policemen attached to Government House is curious and indicative of ulterior motives. His sudden interest in the Governor’s movement is suggestive of a more sinister motive.”
She revealed that Mbu, “has not hidden the fact that he holds Governor Amaechi in disdain and would stop at nothing to either harm him or aid those planning to harm him.”
Semenitari then noted that, “we have chosen to cry out to Nigerians and the rest of the world about this threat to Governor Amaechi’s life as a last resort.”
“We therefore wish to alert Nigerians and the rest of the world that CP Mbu should be held responsible should anything evil happen to the Governor of Rivers State Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, any principal officer or top government functionary in Rivers State. We believe that his current actions are sufficient warning to us as a tree that
cries out cannot kill anyone on its path,” she concluded.
