A REBUTTAL TO RECKLESS UTTERANCES BY ONE BRIGHT NNOKAM AGAINST THE PERSON OF SIR SONI SAM EJEKWU FORMER C.T.C OF PHALGA.

My attention has been drawn to the reckless utterances by one Bright Nnokam and his fellow miscreants, that my boss, Sir Sam Soni Ejekwu owed six months salaries of workers while he served as Phalga C.T.C Boss.

This is a grevious lie from the pit of hell. He never owed six months salaries of Phalga council workers.

To put the record straight and for the purpose of clearing the air, Sir Sam in his first phase of caretakership inherited outstanding debts of 2months salaries owed civil servants and 3months to ad-hoc road sweepers which he cleared.

From Dec.2015 to June 2016 when allocation figures fell far short of the wage bill, the chairman and the principal officers of council still managed to pay Salaries every month allocation is released by augmenting from IGR. Even in the months where allocation figures were unmanageable, what was received was paid as percentage of salaries, hence workers were only owed percentage left-over of their salaries which could not be accommodated by the funds available.

It is important to note that when a Local Government recieves its allocation, four persons are signatories to the Local Government account. The signatories are the chairman, head of local government, head of personnel management and finally the treasurer.

June/July salaries were the only month he owed salaries and were not paid not because he refused to pay but for administrative reasons beyond his personal powers.

The allocation for June and July 2016 arrived by August during which the then chairman and other signatories to the council's account had signed theirs with the exception of the treasurer, who couldn't sign due to her supposed health challenge according to her report.

The non payment lingered continuously as a result of the absence of the treasurer, Sir Soni Sam Ejekwu had put all efforts in place to get it settled through the ministry of finance but all endeavours had proved abortive.

It is also pertinent to state that the non payment of june/July salaries lingered until the expiration of the Caretaker interim tenureship of Sir Sam Ejekwu as a result of the 5weeks continued absence of the treasurer of Port Harcourt City Local Government.

The outgone Phalga caretaker could not have manipulated administrative rules for payment of salaries.

It is also sensible to stress here that Sir Sam Soni Ejekwu did not recieve August allocation before the statutory dissolution of his government on the 1st of September 2016 by His Excellency Chief  Barr.Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike Executive Governor Of Rivers State.

The two months salaries signed by the previous caretaker chairman Sir Sam were eventually paid two days after the new administration was sworn in.

It is unfortunate for Bright Nnokam and his myopic good for nothing peers to carelessly fix talks with a view to polluting the minds of right thinking members of the public at the expense of Sir Sam Ejekwu.

Bright Nnokam displayed the highest level of stupidity and foolishness by blocking me on facebook the very moment my attention was drawn to his mischievous and malicious post/campaign against Sir Sam.

Personally I know his grievances which has obviously led to his irrational and cowardice behaviour on facebook. Only a child without proper home training would portray such attitude. What does he even stand to gain from always antagonizing Sir Sam with falsehood?

Bright Nnokam and his fellows are children in the political business and do not understand the ropes of the game, and I'll advice them to be quiet and observe  until they tiptoe to the level of defending realities and stop showcasing fantasies.

There is no amount of political calumny that can disintegrate the emerald political image built by SIR SONI SAM EJEKWU and I therefore condemn in its entirety the baseless comments by the above mentioned.

Ichemati Ezebunwo Prince-Charles.
SON OF REBISI KINGDOM.