Former Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has been accused of building a private house in Asokoro, Abuja at the cost of N1.2BN with Rivers State government money.
The former governor who was also the Campaign Director for President Muhammadu Buhari was also accused of withdrawing the sum of N812M from the treasury of Rivers State in May 2015 for the purpose of furnishing the same house.
The accusations were made by the Rivers State Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Emma Okah in a post on his Facebook page on Saturday.
His words:”For today, I like to ask, is it proper that an outgoing governor will cause Rivers State to build for him, a private house in Asokoro Abuja at the cost of N1.2BN? Is it fair and conscionable that the same Governor will withdraw the sum of N812M from the treasury of Rivers State in May 2015 for the purpose of furnishing the same house?
Continuing, he said, “The entire Government House, Port Harcourt including the Presidential Lodge therein cost a previous administration the sum of N2BN to build, using Julius Berger”.
“Now I will like to ask: what of the unpaid arrears of salaries of workers, pensioners’ payments, refuse disposal contractors, school fees of students we sent abroad on RSG scholarship, etc?
These are issues that should agitate our minds and not whether one person is in APC and the other is in PDP. Good roads, hospitals, schools etc do not discriminate between one party and the other. If they are good and functional, we as stakeholders will benefit from their goodness”, he added.
It would be recalled that a few days ago, the Rivers State government also accused the immediate past Commissioner of Information, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, of refusing to drop her official car at the end of her tenure prompting the government to send a team of law enforcement agents to her house to retrieve the vehicle.
But in her reaction, Mrs. Semenitari said that by law, she is entitled to leave with the car upon leaving office under the Monetisation Policy of Rivers State.
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