“What’s going on in Rivers State is not Siminalayi Fubara; what’s going on in Rivers State is a combat for the economic soul of Rivers State. Somebody want to grab the economic soul of river state, the soul of Rivers state, for 24 years, they kept milking us.

“That was how our money kept flying all over our heads, it is here today, it is here tomorrow, its funding all type of foolishness.

“This is the first time that civil servants have been paid the 13 months, every Christmas for two years, civil servants get paid, civil servants have been paid all their salaries for the first time.

“There are roads connecting the riverine communities, it has never happened.

“They lied to us that our terrain was too bad, now we know our terrain is not bad” – Dokubo Hilda