I Did Everything To Make Jonathan Clean Ogoniland But He Refused – Amaechi

Minister of Transport and former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi

Amaechi has said that immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan,

clearly turned his deaf ears to the plight of the Ogoni people and the

Niger Delta in general.

Amaechi, who in his address at the flag-off of the implementation of

the UNEC report on Ogoniland acknowledged the presence of his

successor, Nyesom Wike, lamented that he did everything within his

power as a governor to make Jonathan implement the UNEC report on

Ogoniland.

He said, "We did everything possible as a sitting government to make

the president implement the UNEC report, everything. But the report

was not implemented after all."

Amaechi noted that the 1b dollar clean up exercise would create jobs

for the people of the region.

He, however, thanked the President Buhari -led administration for

coming to the aid of the Ogoni people and for fulfilling part of his

campaign promises of cleaning up the region.