|| Environmental scientist || Amanyie King Amanyie is a dedicated Nigerian activist and the Founding National Chairman of the Niger Delta Congress (NDC),
@DokunOjomo He’s the only person that can end Wike politically I can remember when he was SSG to Rivers State Government
Highly respected in port harcourt
THE STATE OF RIVERS STATE: A CALL TO ACTION. A TEXT OF WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY RIVERS FIRST MOVEMENT, RFM, TODAY MONDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2026 IN PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the press and welcome to this press conference by the Rivers First Movement (RFM).
The socioeconomic and political trajectory of Rivers State has over the years taken a disturbing turn which is a cause for great concern. At its root, has been the deviation from the collective to the individual; the substitution of the “we” for the “I”; the projection of the individual portrait over the larger picture, and the sacrificing of the progress of all Rivers people on the altar of personal political gains and selfish arrogation of the commonwealth of the state.
At no point in our history as a people, since our forebears united across tribal and political lines to push for the creation of Rivers State, have we found ourselves in such a debilitating quagmire. Today, the labours of our heroes past, who fought for and advanced the common patrimony which we all share today have been trampled upon by the treasonable actions of a few self-serving individuals beguiled by fawning voices too timid and acquiescent to speak the truth to power.
Unfortunately, since the inception of this administration, the rate of unemployment in the State has been on the increase indicating the administration’s inability to flatten this catastrophic curve. Today, Rivers State accounts for about 13.4% of the total ‘unemployment’ rate in Nigeria (NBS data).
We must face the truth as Rivers people: The truth is that the wealth of Rivers State has been “cartelized” and commandeered by a few while the vast majority of Rivers people have been subjected and sentenced to penurious living. The truth is that our schools are too dilapidated to serve as places of learning because the future of Rivers Children have been set aside for the primitive accumulation of our collective wealth by a few individuals using politics as a veritable tool.
The truth is that our hospitals are nothing to write home about; the truth is that our streets have become dunghills despite billions budgeted for waste disposal; the truth is that our people are no longer safe in the day or at night; the truth is that our young men and women have been canonized by a failed leadership into a life of thuggery, hooliganism and depravity for survival; the truth is that Rivers State is too big to have its entire existence revolve around the political interests and ambitions of Nyesom Wike and Siminalayi Fubara who have made themselves the dramatis personae for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s sole benefit. The truth is that the crux of their daylight squabbles and nocturnal reconciliations has never been about the interest of Rivers people, this is justified by the Governor’s recent unwarranted dissolution of the State Executive Council so as to keep the details of the agreement with his “Oga” hidden from the people of Rivers State.
The truth is that this house of ours has fallen; and not only has it fallen by the conspicuous actions and failures of leadership over these years, but that it has fallen also because of the acquiescence of the masses of Rivers State in the face of the deliberate sabotage of our collective future by the leadership of this state.
The truth is that the people responsible for the fall of Rivers State believe that they are too wealthy and too powerful and that there is nothing Rivers people can do but we say enough is enough and something must and will be done to salvage Rivers State from the vultures in our midst who have turned our land and people desolate so they can feast on our flesh to their fill.
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