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Amaechi Denied Me My Severance Pay – Former Rivers Deputy Gov. Ikuru

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The immediate past deputy governor of Rivers State, Engr Tele Ikuru, has lamented how he officially ended his service in the state on Friday, May 29, 2015 with little or no money.

Ikuru disclosed that Rotimi Amaechi, the ex governor who was his boss at that time left him without any parting gift.

He made this disclosure in a speech during a thanksgiving service for a successful service to the state in Andoni Local Government Area of the state.

The ex deputy governor recalled how he served under Amaechi for seven years and seven months, while he served under deposed Governor Celestine Omehia for five monmths.

Ikuru stated that he was transparent during his service as he ensured to return excess cash to the state’s coffer at the end of every assignment.

He said, “I served the 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 deserved any parting gift despite the fact that in the course of this administration, by reason of the office I occupied, I returned several monies to him valued at over N2 billion cash at different times during one assignment or another.

“By reason of my contribution, I also saved not less than N100 billion for the state government 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,” he said.

It would be worthy to remember that few days to the presidential campaign, Ikuru dumped the All Progressive Congress, APC, for the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, which possibly aggrieved Amaechi.

Ikuru told reporters that he made the move in his bid to support the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan who hails from the same region with him.

That was perhaps the beginning of the rivalry between himself and Amaechi which possibly made the past governor leave him empty-handed at the end of their tenure.

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