PDP Demands Recovery Of Rivers Stolen Funds

President General, Senior Staff Association of Communication, Transport and Corporation, Mr. Muhammed Yunusa (right), with the management team of Intels during a meeting between the union and Intels in Port Harcourt on Monday Photo: Ibioye Diama

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), has urged the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike to ensure that all stolen funds belonging to Rivers people are recovered from the looters, and urgently consider putting all machinery in place for in-depth investigation into the activities of the former Secretary to the State Government (SSG) under Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Senator Magnus Abe, former Managing Director of Risonpalm and House of Representatives member, Chief Andrew Uchendu, former Works Commissioner and House of Representatives member, Dr Dakuku Peterside, and others.
The party’s Chairman, Felix Obuah, in a statement in Port Harcourt, appealed to the governor to also implement the Rivers State Government White Paper which exposed massive looting and stealing of Rivers tax payers’ money under the administration of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi with a view to recovering all stolen money to cushion the harsh effects of the low revenue base of the state and the uncertain economic policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government.
The PDP regretted that under former Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, officials of the government and caretaker committee chairmen shamelessly and criminally shared amongst themselves loans meant for peasant farmers in the state.
“Shamelessly, the same farmers the APC denied loans, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has provided loan facilities, the same people they are approaching for votes, the PDP noted.
The PDP insisted that he, who must come to equity, must come with clean hands.
The state governor, the party strongly argued, should investigate the activities of Senator Magnus Abe, Hon Andrew Uchendu, Dr Dakuku Peterside and others to identify the roles they played directly or indirectly in the looting of the commonwealth of Rivers people.
The PDP also admonished Abe, Uchendu, Peterside and other APC chieftains to submit to such investigation to prove their innocence.
“The state will hardly recover and the people unhappy until those fingered in the mindless looting of the state resources go through the necessary investigation and prosecution, over the massive looting that characterized the administration of Amaechi and such loot recovered for the development of the state”, the PDP reasoned.