Date Published: 08/04/09

Cross River Govt and Private Jet acquisition

Some governors are not prioritizing the needs of their governments. Cross River government that is presently neck-deep in paucity of fund is finding its way to acquiring one of the aircrafts in the fleet of Rivers State government.  The aircrafts owned by Rivers State government were acquired during Peter Odili days by a government reported swam in corruption.

The present Rivers State government was tinkering with the idea of allowing Aero Contractors to run it on its behalf on commercial basis until Cross River State government showed interest in joining the league of state bearing aircraft acquisition.

This was reported by THE PUNCH newspaper of July 29, 2009, page 44. One thing for sure; if Cross River State government that is crying for the restoration of its 76 oil wells recently ceded to Akwa Ibom undertakes this venture, more knocks than kudos shall go to Governor Liyel Imoke and sympathy being expressed in favour of his government in the fight with Akwa Ibom on the disputed oil wells would reduce drastically.

I thought that this squander mania being complained about by the masses are only on the rich states and for Cross River to join the scandal would spell doom for it.

  Akpabio Ini, Plot 12 Bello Street, Garki-Abuja ( akpabioiniama@yahoo.com )