The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has described as shocking and wicked
the many cases of alleged uncovered diversion of
funds meant for the rehabilitation of dilapidated
public schools in the State under the administration
of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
Party, PDP, has described as shocking and wicked
the many cases of alleged uncovered diversion of
funds meant for the rehabilitation of dilapidated
public schools in the State under the administration
of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
Bro Felix Obuah, chairman of the State PDP made
this observation while reacting to the published list
of persons invited by the State Senior Secondary
Schools Board for explanations over monies
received from the immediate past administration
under Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi but not used for the
projects so awarded and some, collected without
project sites.
The State PDP chairman said he was more worried
that a government that made so much noise about
giving the best education to the Rivers children
could condone such recklessness and allowed
monies earmarked to renovate the schools and
provide the right atmosphere for studying frittered
away with careless abandon.
While enjoining the State government not to limit its
searchlight to the mess in the education sector, Bro
Obuah said this was the kind of fraud the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC should be
going after with a view to recovering the loots and
bringing to book the culprits.
The State PDP chairman, however, regretted that
rather than spread its dragnet for such fraudsters to
sanitize the society, the anti-craft agency was busy
haunting opponents of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, innocent citizens, most of whom
have spent the better part of their lives in service to
the country.
“Notwithstanding the collaboration between those
responsible for the parlous state of the public
schools and the general looting of Rivers State
treasury, and the anti-corruption agents, the Rivers
State government should not leave any stone
unturned in exposing illegalities discovered
anywhere in the State under the administration of
Amaechi and those behind them no matter the
social status of their perpetrators,” Obuah stated.
He, therefore, urged all those implicated in the
ghost contracts and looting in Rivers State under
the Amaechi administration to do the needful, by
being ready and willing to refund the stolen funds
and save the State further waste of scarce resources
on litigations.
