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Former Governor Rotimi Amaechi may be indicted by the Rivers state Commission of inquiry as most testimonies heard by the panel suggest widespread corruption and looting of public funds during his administration.
THE Head of Safety and Aviation Department in the Rivers State Ministry of Transport, Mr. Saya Antiok, said on Thursday that the former state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, sacked his cabinet during his first term in office in order to award the monorail contract to a firm, TSI Property and Investment Holding Limited, at the sum of N50 billion.
Antiok, who made this remark in Port Harcourt during the sitting of the commission of inquiry on the sale of state assets by the immediate past administration and other matters, explained that while members of Amaechi’s cabinet wanted the monorail contract to be awarded to Urbanod, an American-based firm, the former governor insisted that TSI should get the contract.
He told the commission that Urbanod offered to execute the 27.1-kilometre project at 15 percent less than what TSI Limited offered to do the job.
Antiok stated that the choice of a technical partner for the monorail project had set the cabinet against the governor before he (Amaechi) decided to dissolved the cabinet.
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SOURCE: PUNCH
THE Head of Safety and Aviation Department in the Rivers State Ministry of Transport, Mr. Saya Antiok, said on Thursday that the former state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, sacked his cabinet during his first term in office in order to award the monorail contract to a firm, TSI Property and Investment Holding Limited, at the sum of N50 billion.
Antiok, who made this remark in Port Harcourt during the sitting of the commission of inquiry on the sale of state assets by the immediate past administration and other matters, explained that while members of Amaechi’s cabinet wanted the monorail contract to be awarded to Urbanod, an American-based firm, the former governor insisted that TSI should get the contract.
He told the commission that Urbanod offered to execute the 27.1-kilometre project at 15 percent less than what TSI Limited offered to do the job.
Antiok stated that the choice of a technical partner for the monorail project had set the cabinet against the governor before he (Amaechi) decided to dissolved the cabinet.
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SOURCE: PUNCH
