LATIMORE’S SACK: Fire Aniagwu, Ifeajika as well, Rights Group tell Okowa

LATIMORE’S SACK: Fire Aniagwu, Ifeajika as well, Rights Group tell Okowa

…Says Okowa Should Prove To Deltans He Is Not A Tribalistic Governor But Governor To All Deltans

A Group, Niger Delta Environmental and Good Governance Crusader (NDEGC), has called for the immediate sack of the Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu and the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Ifeajika Olisa, in order to further rid Governor Okowa’s administration of other greedy media personnel.

The Group Coordinator, Comrade Kelly Gilor, stated this today while fielding questions from newsmen in Warri following the sack of Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, former Executive Assistant on Communication to Governor Okowa.

He noted that Governor Okowa is a good and purposeful leader who means well for Deltans but has surrounded himself with selfish and greedy people in the likes of Aniagwu and Ifeajika and the duo has been having unholy cold war with the State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ.

According to Gilor, the publisher of Ijaw Voice newspaper “The Commissioner for Information and the CPS doesn’t have good relationship with State NUJ executive let alone its members, except for some few journalists whom thay have been using to cause problems and disorganized the State NUJ.

“As Coordinator of Concerned Journalists For Good Working Relationship With Government in Delta State, We are going to stage a protest match round the State and submit a letter to Governor Okowa if the two smart alecks are not sacked within seven days,”He said

The renowned Niger Delta activist alleged that since the appointments of Aniagwu and Ifeajika as Commissioner and Chief Press Secretary, Delta journalists have been suffering untold disrespect in their hands. And they have been using this divide and rule tactics to cause disunity among journalists in the State”.

“Ask Aniagwu of what value is his Smart Delta TV that he is using to syphon the State money? He is gradually killing the three State owned media houses especially DBS Asaba and Pointer newspaper. Go and find out how many copies of the Pointer newspaper that is being printed for circulation daily. He ordered that only 500 copies should be printed and circulated for a State like Delta and the country at large, who does that if the intention is not to kill the newspaper house? Things were a lot better when Chief Patrick Ukah was in Information. Or Is it DBS Asaba where the G.M, Mr. Frankwhyte is struggling to push and start like a rickety vehicle. The state owned media houses only goes to defend its yearly budget, yet they don’t get their montly subvention to run the place from the commisioner. The Pointer case is even the worst, I feel sorry for those guys each time I visit the Pointer office”. Comrade Gilor added.

Comrade Gilor called on Governor Okowa to as a matter of proactive step relief the Commissioner of Information and the CPS of their duties so as to save his good name and the good works he the governor is doing for journalists in the state and Deltans at