FORGET RESOURCE CONTROL IF JONATHAN FAILS TO GIVE IT NOW, AMAECHI TELLS SOUTH-SOUTH

Governor Chibuike Amaechi has advised the South South zone to forget about resource control, if President Goodluck Jonathan fails to address the issue during his tenure as President of the country.
Amaechi gave the advice in Port Harcourt yesterday, during an international conference on, “Democracy and Good Governance” held at the Banquet Hall of the Government House.
He expressed surprise that people, especially those from the South-South region, suddenly stopped talking about resource control, adding that the region is not yet controlling its resources.
He said: “Why are we not talking about it now? Are we controlling our resources? Or, is our turn to chop… If tomorrow, President Goodluck Jonathan departs from office, won’t the majority people still take the resource? Why are we not talking about it now?” He said if the President, as a South-South person failed to amend the constitution to warrant geo-political zone controlling its resources, as no other person from another part of the country would do it.
“Now, nobody is hearing, South-South is oppressed. Have they stopped oppressing us? Do we all have federal roads, do we all have water? So, what I’m saying is that, we are no longer talking about resource control.
“Now, the nation has given us power, is it not? Have we changed the constitution to make us control our resources? So, why haven’t we? That’s the question; we need to address this issue. We need to address that resources control we have been talking about before… If tomorrow, there’s new president, will this oppression not continue?
“You know what Nigeria has done to South-South people. They have just done one thing that, at the end of the administration of a South-South President, you can’t talk about resource control again. Its finished forever because, if you don’t give yourself that resource control, will another person give it to you?”
Source: Sun