Wike said this at the thanksgiving administration at Saint Andrew's Anglican Church, Okrika to pay tribute to Patience Tam-George, the octogenarian mother of the Commissioner of Information, Dr. Austin Tam-George, who was held prisoner for six days by criminals.
He particularly said killings and kidnappings in Rivers happened unabated amid the organization of previous representative Rotimi Amaechi.
Security organizations had in July assembled a peace conference amongst Wike and Amaechi over the strained security circumstance in the state.
Spoken to by the Secretary to the state government, Mr. Kenneth Kobani, the senator said,“We are happy that our mother, Ma Patience Tam-George, did not die in the hand of the kidnappers. The issue of security challenges we are facing was inherited, it is not from us. That is why the governor has encouraged the security agencies to fight crime.
“The governor has zero tolerance for crime. The Amnesty programme, which is also one of the approaches, is to give the cults a second chance.”
Wike approached ministers to advise the adolescents to disregard brutality, even as he charged the general population of the state to bolster the endeavors of the state government in the battle against wrongdoing.
Responding, the state Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Chris Finebone, depicted the case as unbelievable and absurd.
He said, “That is the most preposterous story to tell. Anybody who lived in Rivers State when Amaechi was governor agreed that Amaechi gave his all to fight insecurity in the state.
“It is possible that Kenneth Kobani (representative of the governor), who had gone on self-exile, did not come down to Rivers to experience the quiet and safe Rivers State then.
“He (Kobani) never lived in Rivers during the time Amaechi was governor. So, he spoke from the angle of lack of experience.”
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