Former Governor of Rivers State and former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed that he would have taken out loans to construct six million houses in Rivers State during his tenure as governor.
“Well, there are things you could have done differently, but that does not mean I have regrets. There are things that ordinarily, take for instance; I could as well have borrowed money to build.
“There are six million Rivers people, for instance. We could have borrowed money to build six million houses. If you build high rise and all that, in fact, it was my contact in the Ministry of Transport that made me know that actually, you can build six million houses for six million Rivers people.
“The question the person asked me was, how do you think we accommodate our 1.4 billion persons? Are they living on the streets?
“Are they in the air? We accommodate them. So, ordinary six million, you can’t accommodate them? It was an idea that just struck me when I became a minister. But if I had known that as a governor, I would possibly have borrowed money to build those six million houses for them,” Amaechi disclosed this in an interview with The Sun.