I Didn’t Impose Curfew On Okrika, Amaechi Replies Dame Jonathan

[Shola Sholaz]

Rivers State government has dismissed as untrue allegations by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan that Governor Chibuike Amaechi imposed a nine months curfew on Okrika. Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari, speaking in Port Harcourt said the government of Governor Amaechi had no time imposed a nine- month curfew on Okrika.
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"For us in Rivers state the wife of the President is a Rivers woman. It's a thing of pride that a Rivers woman is the wife of the President. I have read the statement credited to her. It is important to know she is calling for peace. This shows clearly that some persons were acting without her consent.
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That is what her statement connotes."