Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is on an impounding spree and if you served Amaechi’s government in the past, your car may just be in his sights.
On June 18, 2015, a Lexus SUV was removed from the residence of the former state Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari.
Seminitari protested that the car was hers and not the government’s since she had complied with extant monetisation regulations.
Still baying for blood, Wike has impounded an armoured Range Rover belonging to the immediate past Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha.
Okocha wasn’t even home when they came for his ‘baby’ and reports say there was no resistance.
Okocha told pressmen he was in Abuja to observe the Rivers Election Tribunal when he was informed that his vehicle had been taken away on the orders of Governor Nyesom Wike.
Okocha maintained that the vehicle was his ‘status car,’ which the law allowed him to own after his service as a Government House chief of staff.
According to him, “I have just been informed of the forceful confiscation of my status car in the usual brigandage and ‘Rambo’ approach, which typifies the new caretaker administration in Rivers State”.
Note that he referred to Wike’s government as “caretaker administration”, but we’ll pass.
He continued: “I am not, however, surprised at the uncouth action, knowing Mr. Wike’s nuances like the back of my hand, but I warn that this seeming introduction of militarism into our democratic experience and the attendant ignominies may well become our bane if not checked.
He, however, disagreed with the claim that the Range Rover parked in his residence was without its four tyres when it was taken away.
“Is it possible to remove the tyres of the vehicle that I drive always? It is a white lie to say that the vehicle was parked without tyres.
“If they think they are saying the truth, let them show pictures of the vehicle while it was being removed. They must have used a forklift to remove it,” Okocha said.
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