Former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi is under fire as a group has called out for his prosecution over his activities as governor.
Rotimi Amaechi
A group known as the Integrity Group, IG, has called on the various anti-graft agencies in the country to investigate former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi for allegedly embezzling over N70bn.
According to Daily Post, the group disclosed that the said sum embezzled by the Minister of Transport was generated from secret sales of state owned assets while he was in office.
In a statement by its coordinator, Livingstone Wechie in Port Harcourt on Sunday, the group stated that it was armed with documents to show that Amaechi was culpable.
The group claimed that Amaechi should not be calling for probe on corruption in the various agencies under his Ministry when he himself is corrupt.
It said, “we hold that Rotimi Amaechi has no right whatsoever to talk of corruption probe, as corruption cannot probe corruption”.
The group noted that Amaechi who had admissibly confessed and not denied these allegations has neither instituted any legal action in any court against his indictment by the Justice George Otakpo Omereji’s Commission of Inquiry Report as contained in the Government white paper or the Integrity Group documentary backed evidence.
“The credibility of Mr President’s war on corruption through the EFCC and ICPC is in the balance, and will continually suffer grave casualty as long as the likes of Rotimi Amaechi and others with the cloak of corruption, who put Rivers state for sale with impunity, continue to boast and walk freely under federal covers to the dismay of the world.
“It is therefore on this premise that we totally agree with the representations made by the Rivers state Commissioner of information, Dr. Austin Tam-George, that the Rivers state government should recover stolen funds and fight corruption at all levels,” the group said.