BEVERLY HILLS, June 24, (THEWILL) – The Rivers State Government has tasked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to go after Rotimi Amaechi, the former Governor of Rivers State and current Minister of Transport, over his financial contributions to the Presidential campaign of the President in 2015.
A statement signed by Austin Tam-George, Commissioner for Information and Communication, Rivers State, revealed that several petitions against Amaechi, supported by sworn affidavits, have all been written but summarily ignored by the EFCC.
“There is universal concern that the EFCC is playing an extremely corrosive role in the current political dispensation. Rather than fight corruption in a professional and dispassionate manner, the EFCC behaves shamelessly like an integral organ of the APC,” the statement read.
“Has the EFCC ever heard of one Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the former governor of Rivers State and current Minister of Transport? Despite receiving over three trillion Naira in eight years as governor, Amaechi left the most abandoned projects in the history of Rivers State, since 1967.”
“Several petitions against Amaechi, supported by sworn affidavits, have all been summarily ignored by the EFCC.”
“Even chieftains of the APC have publicly acknowledged Rotimi Amaechi’s stupendous financial contributions to the party’s presidential campaign in 2015. These financial contributions, estimated at billions of Naira, constitute serious financial crime against the people of Rivers State.”
“An anti-graft commission that targets only opposition politicians and critics of the failed policies of the APC government is a national embarrassment.”
“The Government and people of Rivers State will resist any politically-motivated targeting of its leaders by any agency of the Federal Government, by whatever name it is called.”
Story by David Oputah
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