The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Felix Obuah has sent condolences to the family of the former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Tonye Harry.
At the same time, the party has criticized the Governor of the State over the state of the health sector.
The party through a statement issued by the Special Adviser on Media to the state chairman, Jerry Needam, commiserated with the wife and children of late Tonye Harry and the entire people of Degema Constituency over the sudden demise of the former lawmaker, urging them to take solace in the enviable legacy of humility and the God fearing life lived by Tonye Harry.
The PDP, however, expressed its regrets that the state notwithstanding its huge resources still lacked hospitals with modern state of the art facilities “to save the life of the former Speaker who died while being flown to a French hospital despite all the claims of well equipped tertiary health institutions in the state by the Amaechi-led government like the Kelsey Harrison and Maxillofacial Hospitals in Port Harcourt”.
“Perhaps, the life of late Tonye Harry would have been saved if there were these facilities locally available” the party insisted, accusing Governor Amaechi of wasting the state’s resources in unnecessary politicking rather than channeling them towards meaningful ventures.
“It’s now confirmed that all the noise of government breakthrough in healthcare delivery is a wild claim that has no content as there is no evidence of any facility in the state that can arrest a heart failure and, or sustain life for even an hour”, the PDP statement said.
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