Rivers State government has called on the Minister for Transport and former Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi, to account for about N3 trillion he received throughout his eight years tenure as the governor of the State. Speaking to media aides in Port Harcourt yesterday January 28th, the State Commissioner for Information, Tam George said the State was still reeling from “the catastrophic legacy of the former governor” despite receiving over three trillion naira in revenue in 8 years.
Amaechi left the most abandoned projects in
the history of Rivers State since 1997. Thousands of workers were
without their salaries for four months and thousands of teachers were
not paid for nearly 12 months. We have so many abandoned projects which
huge sums have been paid but projects are yet to be completed. We have
the Mono-rail project that gulped over N60bn and it was abandoned. We
have the Woji road project awarded at N3bn. There was a variation of the
project to the upward of N14bn but it was abandoned. We inherited the
project and completed it. There are so many of the abandoned projects.
We have the Karibi George 250 bed project where huge sums of money were
paid but no single block was laid at the site” he said.
The commissioner said the Wike-led government will explore legal means
that will help compel those who looted the state treasury to face the
law and be punished accordingly.
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