A member of the Federal Constituency, and former Commissioner for Works in Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Dumnamene Dekor, has come down heavily on those accusing the State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, of alleged mosque demolition in Rainbow Town, Port Harcourt, the state capital. He declared emphatically that no mosque existed on the said land ab initio, as insinuated by critics of the Governor.

The federal lawmaker said at no time was a mosque built on the said site, adding that no records from his predecessors showed that a mosque existed on the said land all through his period of service as Works Commissioner.

He frowned at the unsavory comments of those he described as political desperadoes with no other aim than to incite the Muslim community against the State Governor.

The lawmaker in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, Monday, wondered why critics would continue to mouth over a matter which predated Governor Wike, having been resolved by a subsisting court judgment in Suit Number PHC/986/2012 between Registered Trustees of Trans Amadi Mosque, Port Harcourt (claimant) versus the Commissioner, Ministry of Urban Development and Physical Planning, Rivers State, the Governor of Rivers State and the Attorney General of Rivers State (defendants).

Rt. Hon. Dekor affirmed that the court in that judgment ruled that the claimants had no approval to build on the disputed land.

He recalled that these anti-Wike propagandists had in all their commentaries affirmed that under former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, the said ‘mosque’ had suffered two demolitions.

“To every rational thinker, one again wonders why there was no hue and cry against Amaechi. Why all these noise against Wike? It clearly shows that there is more to all these than meets the eye,” he said.

The federal lawmaker, representing Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency, likened the mosque demolition drama that is playing out in the state to the biblical story of two women who appeared before Solomon contending for the ownership of a baby. He noted that while the culprit ascribed to the suggestion of cutting the baby into two equal parts, the mother of the baby declined, reasoning that when the baby grows up, it would know its mother.

“These enemies of the state are fanning the embers of hate against Governor Wike, rooting to burn down the state just because they no longer have any stake in Rivers State for the simple reason that they have long been rejected by the people,” he stated.

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