The lawmaker representing Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Dumnamene Robinson Dekor, has frowned at the attempt by some people to use the demolished Prodest Hotel, Eleme, owned by an Ogoni man to paint Ogoni nation in bad light through unguarded utterances, subversive media reports against the lawful action of the Rivers State government.
Dekor said this had made some lawyers and surrogates of political detractors of the state government, hiding under the cover of comment on Coronavirus pandemic to castigate the Nyesom Wike administration.
The lawmaker noted that the state government only acted within the ambit of the law, stressing that it was very wrong and inciting to localise the issue as similar and corresponding punishments had been meted out to defaulters of the government’s directives on COVID-19 elsewhere, depending on the weight of the offence, no matter their place of origin.
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“It’s more provocative and unholy when the person of the executive governor of the state, who is doing everything humanly possible to contain the spread of the pandemic in the state is insulted or presented with indignation,” Dekor said in a statement.
He, however, noted that there were legal and constitutional opportunities open to an aggrieved person(s) to seek redress, if not satisfied with any action of government, or any other entity, rather than recourse to incitement of the innocent members of the public and, or the promotion of ill-feelings and disaffection against the person of the executive governor of the state among the innocent and law abiding Ogoni people.
On the protesting Ogoni women who took to the streets recently against the demolition of Prodest Hotel, Dekor said it benumbed all sensibilities and was doubtful that Ogoni women widely respected for their wisdom and patience and who did not exhibit any form of violence even in the face of killings by the defunct military regimes could display such brazen childishness over a personal issue bordering on Act of lawlessness already before the court.
