Former Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Tele Ikuru has lamented that his former boss, Chibuike Amaechi, denied his severance benefits after diligently serving him for more than seven years.
Ikuru who spoke during a thanksgiving service at St. Simons Anglican Church, Ikuru-Town in Andoni Local Government Area of the state said “I served this government for seven years and seven months under Amaechi, because I was with Omehia for five months. At the end of the seven years and seven months Amaechi did not think that I deserve any parting gift in spite of the fact that in the course of this administration, by reason of the office I occupied, I returned several monies to him valued over N2 billion cash at different times during one work or the other.
“By reason of my contribution to this government, I also saved this government not less than a hundred billion naira over the period. At the end of the seven years and seven months, my boss left me hard and dry, nothing and no penny to go home with.”
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Chief Kenneth Kobani, at the service added that “His Excellency has asked me to join you in this thanksgiving service, and to say our brother, Tele Ikuru, had been a wonderful servant to Rivers State. He served the state meritoriously and finish very strong. That is why at the time we needed someone to midwife the transition government; we did not have to look anywhere else, but to look at Tele Ikuru to lead us.”
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus also lauded Ikuru for not joining those who lauded government properties in the previous administration.
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