“You have a Minister, Nyesom Wike,
who does no work in the Ministry [where lecturers are on strike] but is
gallivanting all over Nigeria and the world in the interest of Rivers State
politics and President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 ambitions.
"You have a man, Chinda, who
suffers no life-threatening injuries but who is flown on the president’s order
to London at public expense. You have a man who could have been treated in any
local hospital for superficial injuries but was shamelessly shipped abroad.
"You have an entire army of
men flown from Nigeria to London in First Class at public expense to go and
pose for fake pictures and collect large allowances all because they have in
Abuja a man who does not give a damn about fighting corruption. It gives an
all-familiar meaning to the term:
Wike-leaks!"
Investigations by Sahara
Reporters show that Rivers State legislator, Hon Michael Chinda, was discharged
from London’s Bupa Cromwell Hospital on Saturday, a day after the Minister of
State for Education, Nyeson Wike, took a delegation there on a "fake"
courtesy visit and posed for pictures by his bedside.
But photos were circulated by
Nyesom Wike on Sunday showing a group of politicians from Rivers State, led by
him in an "hospital room". The pictures were choreographed to present
Hon Chinda as having suffered grave injuries in the brutal attack in the House
of Assembly, and become bedridden.
The "fake" delegation
trip to London was reportedly bankrolled by Wike’s office and the presidency,
costing Nigerian taxpayers several thousands of British pounds in flight, food
and hotel accommodation. Ironically, it is at a time Nigerian universities had
been shut down due to lack of funding from the government.
A credible source told Sahara
Reporters that the main reason behind the Minister’s sponsorship of Chinda's
trip was to garner sympathy for the five lawmakers that invaded the Rivers
House of Assembly in an attempt to overthrow the Speaker and later impeach
Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
Wike’s London delegation includes
former deputy speaker of the House of Reps, Austin Opara; President of Nigeria
Bar Association, Okey Wali; former state Treasurer of Action Congress of
Nigeria, Kenneth Kobani; former Transport Minister, Abiye Sekibo; Rivers State
factional PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah; and a former Commissioner in Rivers State,
Mr. Bonny Iyaye.
"This trip contains all the
elements of what is wrong with Nigeria,” an analyst told Sahara Reporters.
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