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Monday, April 20, 2020

Arrest Of ExxonMobil Staff: Gov Wike Is Right!

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
All those people out there speculating on the motives of the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, and condemning him for ordering the arrest of the 22 ExxonMobil staff who flouted the executive order signed by the governor to stop the movement of people from other states into Rivers in order to check the spread of coronavirus in the state should hide their faces in shame and thoroughly interrogate themselves to determine whether they are not labouring under the usual debilitating inferiority complex that often pushes some “natives” to prefer to endanger their people’s lives in order to please the “White Massa”? 
Gov Wike 
If it were some “ordinary” people from Akwa-Ibom that were arrested for breaching the law in Rivers State, would there have been any uproar? Would that have earned even a footnote mention in the media? I can imagine what will be the fate of some workers of a Nigerian company operating in the United States who chose to brazenly flout a movement restriction order in the state of Texas, the home of ExxonMobil, for whatever reason!  

Addressing a press conference in Port Harcourt on Friday, April 17, Wike said: “Security agencies arrested 22 staff of Exxon Mobil who came into the state from neighbouring Akwa Ibom State in violation of the extant Executive Order restricting movement into the state. We do not know the coronavirus status of these individuals. Even though security agencies advised that they be allowed to go back to Akwa Ibom State, I insisted that the law must take its course. This is because nobody is above the law. As a responsive government, we have quarantined them in line with the relevant health protocols and they will be charged to court.” 

Certainly, this is how civilized and rule-governed societies are run. There are no set of laws for the masses and another set for some gaggle of privileged lawbreakers.