the Gov. Rotimi Amaechi administration of not keeping its promises to
Rivers people.
The party made the declaration while reacting to the cries and lamentation
of students of the state origin sent to the United Kingdom to study
medicine by the State Government through the Rivers State Sustainable
Development Agency, RSSDA since 2010 who have just been given a marching
order by the Agency to come home when they are yet to start their medical
programme (MBBS) for which scholarship was offered.
Faulting the move by the RSSDA to force them back home and the stoppage of
payment of their upkeep and accommodation allowances with effect from
August, 2014, the party in a statement signed by Jerry Needam, Special
Adviser on Media to the State Chairman, Prince Felix Obuah said that is not
only deceitful and a breach of contract but also a fraud, as millions of
naira had been voted for the programme.
The party also wants both the RSSDA and the governor to take into
cognizance the far reaching implications of forcing these students to
return home without clearing their indebtedness to the UK institutions, a
criminal case which can make them (the institutions) to blacklist the
students and denying them the possibility of travelling abroad for further
studies or any other business in future.
“We have been vindicated in its allegation that Gov Rotimi Amaechi had
emptied the State treasury on sponsorship of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) which he has consistently denied.wonders what other reason could
compel Amaechi and his pet Agency, RSSDA to stop the students on State
scholarship halfway rather than lack of funds as claimed by the agency.â€
“Now the students have not completed their programmes neither has Amaechi
gotten the trained and qualified personnel to keep his so called super
health centres afloat, yet he wants those sent out to acquire these skills
to come home without qualifying simply because the State is broke
“We are therefore demanding that the move to recall these students back
home without completing their programme be stopped forthwith, or all the
billions of naira already claimed to have been spent on these aggrieved
deceived Rivers scholarship beneficiaries be refunded to Rivers people.
“All this while, we thought this idea of starting a project and not
finishing it before jumping to the other was only restricted to
infrastructural development and now he has extended it to human
development, we find it unacceptable,†the party concluded.