I wore one shirt for 4 years, my family couldn't feed - Amaechi

A former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has said that he wore a shirt and a trouser for nearly four years due to poverty.

The former Governor of Rivers State said that growing up in the streets of Port Harcourt was difficult as his family could not even feed.

Amaechi, a former two-term Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, two-term governor and two-term Minister of Transportation, said this in an interview with Daily Sun where he spoke majorly of personal issues rather than politics.

He said, “I grew up in Port Harcourt. Poverty was everywhere, we couldn’t feed, you can hardly eat three times a day, and you can h...
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