The Rivers State Government says it has approved the termination of the
share sale contract for 70 per cent equity of the state-owned power
generation assets.
The state government also admitted that the companies whose contracts
were cancelled were linked to Sahara Energy, whose co-owner Tonye Cole
is the opposition governorship candidate in the state.
The state Commissioner for Information, Emma Okah. while addressing
journalists after the State Executive Council meeting in Port Harcourt,
said the contract held by First Independent Power Limited in Omoku,
Afam, Trans-Amadi and Eleme Gas Turbines to NG Power-HPS Limited had
been terminated.
The commissioner said that the government also terminated the concession
of the Rivers and Bayelsa State owned Olympia Hotel to Cenpropsaroten
Hotel Management Limited.
He stressed that the state government had also terminated the concession
agreement between it and Kild concession Limited in respect of the
construction of a Toll road and Secondary developments at Abonnema
Wharf, Port Harcourt.
Mr Okah said the decisions were part of the resolutions taken at the
council meeting, presided over by Governor Nyesom Wike at the Government
House, Port Harcourt.
The Rivers information commissioner said that the three companies whose
contracts and concessions were terminated, were subsidiaries of Sahara
Energy Limited.
The commissioner stressed that the government made the resolutions in
line with recommendations of the White Paper on the Report of the
Judicial Commission of Inquiry for the Investigation of the past
administration’s sale of Valued Assets of the state and other related
matters under the chairmanship of Justice George Omereji.
He said that the government had directed the Attorney–General and
Commissioner for Justice, Zaccheaus Adango, to take further steps as
contained in the White Paper.
Mr Cole, an ally of transport minister, recently resigned his position
in Sahara Energy to contest the March 2019 governorship election in the
state.
He has pledged to defeat Mr Wike who seeks re-election on the PDP platform.
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