Okocha accuses Rivers govt of spending unappropriated funds

• Fubara donates operational vehicles to police, charges officers to be apolitical

The Tony Okocha-led All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has again accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s administration of spending the state’s money without appropriation.

who is also the Rivers State Representative at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), said that he has the right to speak on behalf of the APC in the state and that no one can contest it.
  
Recall that the 2023 governorship candidate of APC in the state, Tonye Cole, had, in a televised interview, stated that Okocha lacked the right to speak on behalf of the party after being sacked by the High Court in Port Harcourt, where Emeka Bekee-led executives were reinstated. Cole also claimed that Okocha belongs to the Wike’s camp.

IN another development, Fubara has donated 100 vehicles to the Rivers State Police Command as part of an effort to tackle the problem of insecurity, while boosting emergency responses.  
 
Speaking at the inauguration and formal handover of the operational vehicles at the Sharks Football Stadium in Port Harcourt, yesterday, the governor advised police officers who have become partisan abandoning their core responsibilities to pursue vested political interests, to know that the enemy they create will hurt them in the long run.
  
Fubara stated that police officers are trained professionals whose duties are to protect life and property while contributing to peace in the state as a patriotic duty.
  
He said it is an aberration for any of the officers to think that protecting any particular individual or being one-sided in political affairs to the detriment of the state amounts to professionalism.