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Amaechi’s Scandals Vindicate Rivers State

The  Rivers  State  Government on Friday said it has been vindicated by the indictment of Minister of Transport and former governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi by some senior judges over alleged corrupt allegations.

In a statement signed by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Communications, Dr. Austin Tam- George, the state government also faulted the state’s chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) for naming Governor Nyesom Wike as being responsible for Amaechi’s predicament.

The statement reads “The attention of the Rivers State Government has been drawn to yet another scurrilous statement by the Rivers State branch of the All Progressives Congress (APC), alleging that Governor Nyesom Wike had a hand in the judicial scandals that have engulfed Mr Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transport”.

“Governor Wike categorically denies any role in Mr Amaechi’s disgraceful plight. Governor Wike had refrained from making public comments on this subject, because the people of Rivers State feel sadly vindicated by these latest scandals swirling around the Transport Minister”.

“In the run up to his screening by the Senate for the post of Minister in the federal cabinet in 2015, Nigerians were warned about Mr. Amaechi’s egregious antecedents in public office.
As governor of Rivers State, Mr. Amaechi left a shameful record of waste and dysfunction. His thoughtless policies and mismanagement of public funds literally broke the economic spine of Rivers State.After his tenure in Rivers State, Mr Amaechi was indicted for stealing public funds by a court-approved panel of inquiry”.

“Amaechi has of course always protested his innocence. But even chieftains of his party, the APC, including serving governors, have publicly praised Mr Amaechi for bankrolling the party’s presidential campaigns in the 2015 general elections, and for sponsoring candidates in that election.

“Amaechi’s financial contributions to the APC, estimated to be in billions of Naira, constitute serious financial crime against the people of Rivers State”.

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“The allegations made against the Transport Minister by the justices of the court are therefore hardly surprising, because the scandals fall within a pattern of his moral turpitude in public life.

Rather than blame others for Amaechi’s woes , Nigerians expect the APC to ask the Minister to step down from office, in order to allow for a dispassionate inquiry into the serious allegations against him”.

“All the federal anti-corruption agencies have so far treated the serious allegations against Mr Amaechi with the  moral timidity of Lucifer’s wife. But any war against corruption that does not begin with Mr Amaechi in the dock is a mere fishing expedition”.

“Amaechi’s continuous presence in the federal cabinet is an ugly moral sore, a dark blight on the so-called fight against corruption”.

 

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