Wike Retrieves Abandoned Rivers Aircraft From Germany

Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike has stated that the Legacy 600 aircraft’s recovery and eventual return to the state is a reality and not just a matter of politics.

Wike, who had embarked on a short trip to London last Friday, spoke after receiving the Legacy 600 aircraft that touched down at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the State on Tuesday afternoon.

To mark the homecoming of the state-owned aircraft that had been covertly left in Germany by the state’s most recent administration, Rivers women and youths put on some cultural performances at the airport’s brief welcoming.

Wike said that in order for his administration to learn about such a resource, which was controlled by the Rivers State government, they needed an intelligence report.

Wike added that the aircraft was flown to distant Germany by the previous administration without providing his administration with any documentation of it.

He said, “To the glory of God, the plane is back and Rivers people can see. Nigerians can see. It is not that we are playing politics.

“All we are saying is that we never knew. Nobody told us until we got intelligence that we have this asset somewhere.”

He recalled that the Legacy 600 Aircraft was purchased by the Dr. Peter Odili’s led administration to serve the interest of Rivers people, but was abandoned with the General Atomics Aerotec in Munich, Germany by the Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Ameachi’s administration since 2012.

“What is very important to all of us here today is that when we came into power in 2015, nobody handed over any report or gave us handover note to let us know where such an asset of the state was, only for us to hear in 2019 that this asset is somewhere,” Wike said.

The governor also stated that so much money was spent by the state government on the aircraft; money that would have been put into other development projects if his administration had known of it quite early.

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