Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Prince Tony Momoh, a former Minister of Information on Monday said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers did no wrong by making a law and taking actions to enforce it.

Thd governor at the weekend supervised the demolition of two hotels in the state, an action that has generated divergent views from within and outside the state.

The affected hotels, Prudent Hotel, Alode in Eleme, and Etemeteh Hotel in Onne, were said to have been operating despite the executive order barring all hotels in the 23 LGAs of the state from opening for business to check the spread of COVID-19.

Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, Momoh, a senior lawyer and one of the National leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said anyone who flouts laid down rules should be prepared to bear the consequences.

"Laws are made to be obeyed, rules are put forward to be obeyed. In these times when everybody is on edge, a lot of things happen outside due process".

"But if a governor feels this is what I want in my state and give orders about the consequences of disobedience, taking it that the order he gives is law, anybody who disobeys it will bear the consequences"

"For instance, on the issue of kidnapping and armed robbery, the governor of Anambra and other governors decided that anybody who kidnaps or any house where a kidnapped person Is hidden will be demolished. Wrong as it may seem but that is the way they can address the issues confronting them".

"I am the wrong person to pronounce judgement on a Chief Executive who is in charge of a state and knows how to govern it and then takes a decision and then enforces it".

When asked if the owners of the demolished hotels can sue the state government, Momoh said "Why not? If they want to go Court, they can sue. But the fact is, why did they break the law? I have no sympathy for anyone who looks at the law in the face and wilfully breaks it".

https://www.independent.ng/former-minister-tony-momoh-backs-wike-on-hotels-demolition/

What

Sometimes I wonder whether these dudes parading themselves as lawyers really did study law
How will you sympathise when your principal is also a law breaker? Funny old man

These are people with common sense.
Obey the law, about 70% of Nigerians blaming Wike did not read the news only the headline, and they will start judging him.

If the hotel owners sue and win in court, will Wike pay ??

it is heartless of the governor to have gone that far just as it is irrational of Mr momoh

One thing I know is that Governor Nyesom Wike who boldly and personally supervised the demolition of those hotels can't say he lacks the power to mobilise the police and soldiers to storm those hotels, seal them and arrest every human being in their premises: owner, manager, workers, pimps, oloshos and clients and shepherd them before a court with appropriate charges slammed against them as well as the hotels as entities.

I maintain that Gov. Wike has NO business demolishing those hotels. His action remains unnecessary, reckless and lawless.

The danger is that if Nigerian State Governors need only an Executive Order to act as judge, prosecutor, jury and penal enforcer and could demolish business buildings at will, then Nigeria is playing with fire because the business premises of many political opponents of state governors will be in crumbles across the country soon.

You're an APC member and you're supporting tyranny.
I'm not surprised!

Lawyers will always support themselves the same way the the military do

coins501:
Sometimes I wonder whether these dudes parading themselves as lawyers really did study law
How will you sympathise when your principal is also a law breaker? Funny old man

Have this man ever preached this his worthwhile ideological conviction to bubu that is totally lawless but wants change to start with Nigerians?

Wike has got a strong support from Momoh a strong APC sympathizer

Maybe he has seen the light

Paperwhite:
Have this man ever preached this his worthwhile ideological conviction to bubu that is totally lawless but wants change to start with Nigerians?

The same set of people that called for Funke's head are definitely the ones criticizing Wike.

Confused beings

Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright

No body is above the law

You think you got some money and dumb fuckkk hotel then you won't comply with the governor's directives

Much as Wike warned about demolishing people's houses, he should have seized the hotels from them instead of demolishing someone's source of livelihood. If it was Protea Hotels or Radisson Blu, would he have gone there to demolish them?

He also has no right to auction people's cars. At the end of the day, Rivers State Government, inter alia, Rivers people would pay the costs of compensation for these victims arising from Wike's idiocy when this matter reaches the Supreme Court. Every action by a state executive must be backed by law or gazetted. So long as none of this was met, Wike's actions are criminal, ultra vires and impeachable. Let the victims prepare their court documents, Wike is in trouble after his tenure.

There must be a limit to executive brigandage.

Is true sha

What happened to fining them... Demolishing a building that only violated social gathering is wicked....


Wike will surely pay for his sins, whether he likes it or not....


How will the hoteliers recover from their lost?


When you fight people....be ready to face the consequences..... Abba Kyari fought with alot of people...Ofcoz you know where he is today....

Instead of demolishing the hotel. It could have serve more use as an isolation or quarantine Center.

This is true, there should be a full investigation into the matter, then we can judge.

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Interesting.

wike might still compensatethose hotel owners and they are not big hotels.

This blind stupid old man again

Na Wike get this coronavirus season.. Oh mehn, everywhere Wike.


Lawyers who lambasted, lampooned and castigated Wike, the stage is set. Please take up the case on behalf of the owners of the hotels and Sue RVSG. I'm talking about the likes of Falana and Adegboruwa(hope i spelt it well).


Time for them to put their money where there mouth is.


Why I support the demolition is the peculiarity of Rivers. He knows us the people he governs, they are people you don't negotiate with, any sign of weakness or inability to keep to your threat, they will take you for a very long ride. A state littered with natural strongheads, cultists, militants and people who love to thwart instructions for fun of it, to show they have level and guts. Na Wike fit us.

He's the Babayoga......he [s]killed 3 people in a bar with a f¥cking pencil [/s] demolished 2 hotels in PHC with a f¥cking bulldozer

People should learn to obey laws.