Wike, others loyal to Tukur’s PDP threaten to destroy 10billion Banana Plantation Project
Busolami Idowu
Politicians loyal to Tukur’s faction of the Peoples Democratic Party have threatened to launch a destructive attack on the state government owned N10billion Banana plantation in Ogoni land in Tia Local Government council.
The threat was issued at the inauguration of members of Grassroot Development Initiative in Tai Local Government Area of the state. In attendance was the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike who mocked the state’s agricultural project calling on the people of Ogoni to reject such projects.
“There is nothing called new PDP. They have been defeated in court. They have been defeated in INEC. Nobody will challenge Mr. President. For all those intimidation, be rest
assured you will get all the necessary protections within the ambits of the Law. Nobody will intimidate you.”
He continued “You must know people who mean well for you. You all have to know that the Ogonis are not monkeys. When I hear people say they have something for Ogoni, the only industry they have for you is a banana industry. Holy Ghost fire for all the people, for all those that conspired that there is nothing that is good for the Ogoni people except to make them have bananas. Ogoni people have paid their dues. They are not meant to be eating bananas”.
In attendance also was a former Senator from the state, Lee Maeba who said he would personally take the lead to ravage the state government funded plantation.
“We are not monkeys and we are not growing bananas at all. They have been talking on the radio that they uncovered a plot. There is no need to uncover anything, I said I will lead a well-meaning protest of all the Ogonis and by the time we return there will be no more bananas”, he threatened.
“I said it in Bori that after listening to the cries of the Ogonis, they agreed that the soil of Ogoni is contaminated and there must be clean-up and compensation. When the compensation team arrived from New York, Pharo led a group of agriculturist and went to establish banana farm and told them that the soil is good that they should not pay compensation; they should not clean up the land.
“But with those bananas, they are using to deceive our people, to deceive the United Nations, to deceive the Federal Government that the soil is clean. We shall clean up the bananas and clean up the soil”, he added.
