By Jimitota Onoyume

PORT HARCOURT — Rivers State Government is to come down hard on kidnappers and cultists in the state as their landed property will no longer be spared when they are jailed.

Governor Nyesom Wike disclosed this yesterday in Port Harcourt, saying that the government would get the state House of Assembly to amend the Rivers State Secret Cult and Similar Activities (Prohibition) Law enacted in 2004.

Wike, who spoke at a church service in Port Harcourt, said that at the end of the amendment, the state government would be empowered by law to demolish houses belonging to kidnappers, noting that this will deter others from going into such crime.

The governor, who spoke extensively on efforts by his government to rehabilitate roads in the state capital, said his emergence as governor was an act of God.

“It is by God’s grace that I became governor. So, this is not the time to say you supported me or you didn’t support me.

‘’It is not a time for complaints, but it is incumbent on government to solve problems. So, we must sit down and ensure that the problems of the people are solved in order to move the state forward,” he said.

He assured that every people-oriented project started by his predecessor would be completed by his government so long as they served the common good of the people

“Let me tell you formally that I have ordered the contractor to make sure that everything is done to complete that project. Yes, some people would ask why are you doing this? Why not start your own projects?

‘’The problem we have in this country is that, let it be me that started it. But, I don’t want to be the one that started it, I prefer to be the one that finished it,” Governor Wike added.