Hon. Rotimi Amaechi has revealed that he used to chase criminals without bulletproof vest while serving as the governor of River State.
TheNewsGuru recalls that Amaechi made a pledge that fighting insecurity in Nigeria is his major priority if voted as president in 2023.
The former Rivers State governor resigned from his position as Transportation Minister following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive for his appointees who are seeking elective positions to step down.
His media office quoted him as saying; “I know what you’re suffering, I was governor of Rivers State when they were kidnapping two months old children, and I never slept until everybody slept.
“General Buratai is not here today, he would have told you the story. Buratai, myself the former Inspector General of Police (Suleiman Abba) asked them, we used to chase criminals in the bush.
“I remember one day I was chasing criminals with Gen Sarkin Yaki Bello (then Commander of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta), we were running and he stopped and asked me, ‘Your Excellency, are you wearing a bulletproof vest?’ I said why are you asking, he said ‘what if they shoot you,’ I said ‘are you wearing one?’ He said no, and I asked ‘what if they shoot you.’
“But in six months, we brought down insecurity in Rivers state.”