The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has blamed the unemployment rate under his successor for the heightening insecurity in Rivers State.
Amaechi said most of the establishments’ set up to create employment in the state have folded up under Nyesom Wike’s administration.
Speaking during the defection of two former commissioners in the Governor Nyesom Wike-led administration and other members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Port Harcourt on Sunday, Amaechi said: “Rivers State is in danger, completely. A state where properties are collected and somebody is busy building everywhere and nobody is talking.
“When I was governor, God knows, I did my best. I did not build only roads, I built schools. I did not build only roads, I built electricity. I built farms. I created employment. Rivers State was not among the highest unemployed community in Nigeria.
“The reason why crime is high in Rivers State is that unemployment is very high. That the reason why we had the Songhai Farm. Today, the Songhai Farm is gone. That is why we had the Banana Farm that they stopped in Khana (Ogoniland).
“That is why we had fish farms and that is why we were building a farm in Etche. We were doing all those things to create employment for the youths. That is why we hired 13,200 teachers and that is why we sent our children overseas to study.”
