▪Gives FG seven days ultimatum to return the funds
diverted by the immediate past Governor
Rivers State Governor has given the Federal Government an
ultimatum of 7 days to return the $43million dollars found in a luxury
apartment in Ikoyi to the Rivers State Government , failure which the State
Government will take legal measures to ensure that it gets back her stolen
resources
Governor Wike also declared that the $43million dollars
found in the luxury apartment in Ikoyi belongs to the Rivers State Government.
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Governor Wike said that investigations by the Rivers
State Government revealed that the money was proceed from the sale of gas
turbines by the immediate past Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi.
Addressing journalists at the Government House, Port
Harcourt on Friday night, Governor Wike said: "The money in question
belongs to the former Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. We want
to confirm that the houses in Ikoyi also belong to Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.
"If you recollect in 2015, we said that gas turbines
built by Former Governor Peter Odili were sold to Sahara Energy, business
partners of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi at $319million.
"That money was used to sponsor the All Progressives
Congress for the 2015 general elections. From the date of sale of the gas
turbines to May 29, 2015, the money depleted from $319million to $204,000 .
What was stashed at the Ikoyi residence was part of that fund".
He said : "We have facts to prove that the said
money belongs to the Rivers State Government. The Federal Government must
return our money".
Governor Wike said all the stories being peddled about
the money belonging to the National Intelligence Agency are false and mere face
saving measures by the embattled APC Federal Government.
He said: "As I speak to you, the Federal Government
is so embarrassed that this has happened. All the stories that the money
belongs to the NIA are fake".
Governor Wike challenged the Federal Government to set up
a panel of Inquiry , which will sit publicly to investigate the money, if it
doubted the claim of the Rivers State Government.
He stated that the Rivers State Government needs the
money to complete an array of projects, insisting that on no account would this
criminal activity be swept under the carpet.
The governor said as long as the Federal Government
continues to disturb the progress of Rivers State, so long will God throw the
Federal Government into confusion.
"We are giving them seven days to return our money.
Otherwise, we would take legal action to recover our money. $43million will
help us complete several projects. We need that money for projects", he
said.
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