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Ex Rivers governor Rotimi Amaechi, is currently at the mercy of a court he shut down years ago following the corruption investigation into his tenure, Thisday reports.
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In what could be described as a twist of fate, the same court the former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, shut down for over a year following his feud with the National Judicial Council had cause to decide his suit against the commission of inquiry to probe his administration last week, Davidson Iriekpen writes
While in power, if anyone had told him it would happen so soon, he would have doubted it. But this was what played out last week when the suit the former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, filed to stop the probe his administration at the state High Court sitting in Port Harcourt was dismissed.
Wike had on June 19 inaugurated a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate Amaechi over the sale of Omoku 150 megawatts (MW) Gas Turbine, Afam 360 MW Gas Turbine, Trans-Amadi 136 MW Gas Turbine and Eleme 75 MW Gas Turbine, the mono-rail project and Olympia Hotel. Other areas for the commission of inquiry to investigate include “the non-execution of the contract for the construction of the Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte Specialist Hospital after the payment of the sum of $39,200,000 million to the supposed contractor; the disbursement or use by the state Ministry of Agriculture of the sum of N2 billion Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Funds, and the withdrawal and expenditure of the accrued N96 billion from the Rivers State Reserve Fund without compliance with the Rivers State Reserve Fund Law No. 2 of 2008.”
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Excerpt:
In what could be described as a twist of fate, the same court the former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, shut down for over a year following his feud with the National Judicial Council had cause to decide his suit against the commission of inquiry to probe his administration last week, Davidson Iriekpen writes
While in power, if anyone had told him it would happen so soon, he would have doubted it. But this was what played out last week when the suit the former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, filed to stop the probe his administration at the state High Court sitting in Port Harcourt was dismissed.
Wike had on June 19 inaugurated a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate Amaechi over the sale of Omoku 150 megawatts (MW) Gas Turbine, Afam 360 MW Gas Turbine, Trans-Amadi 136 MW Gas Turbine and Eleme 75 MW Gas Turbine, the mono-rail project and Olympia Hotel. Other areas for the commission of inquiry to investigate include “the non-execution of the contract for the construction of the Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte Specialist Hospital after the payment of the sum of $39,200,000 million to the supposed contractor; the disbursement or use by the state Ministry of Agriculture of the sum of N2 billion Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Funds, and the withdrawal and expenditure of the accrued N96 billion from the Rivers State Reserve Fund without compliance with the Rivers State Reserve Fund Law No. 2 of 2008.”
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