PDP Guber Candidate: Rivers To Charge EFCC For Contempt, Prosecute Amaechi, Cole

The Rivers State Government is to consider filing contempt charges against the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) upon its alleged harassment of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the state, Siminalaye Fubara.

The government is also to file charges against the immediate past governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC over what he claimed as their alleged indictment in the transfer of $50 million out of the state’s treasury.

Governor Nyesom Wike opened up on the developments after swearing in three new commissioners.

Those sworn in were Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Hon. Isaac Kamalu as Commissioner of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning and Dr. George-Kelly, Dakorinama Alabo as Commissioner for Works and Special Projects.

The contempt charges Wike said would be considered upon the recent attempts by the EFCC to arrest Fabura who was the immediate past accountant-general of Rivers State.

Wike maintained that the attempt to harass the State PDP candidate will not be accepted as the State government will not hesitate to  charge the EFCC for contempt.

Governor Wike explained that before now, the Rivers State government had gotten a subsisting court judgment against the EFCC that it cannot investigate the State finances or its officers. According to him, there is also another judgment against EFCC by the PDP governorship candidate to enforce his fundamental rights, which has not been set aside.

” Rivers State government had judgment against EFCC since 2007. The court said you (EFCC) has no business in the financial transactions of the (Rivers) State. EFCC has been struggling to set aside that judgement until now. They have not even appealed it.”

Governor Wike noted that nobody will accept the use of EFCC at such political period to intimidate persons in order to achieve their skewed political goals.

“We are in a political period. People should not think that they will use EFCC to intimidate or manipulate him (Fubara). Nobody will accept that. So you (Attorney General) have to attach the judgment of the candidate against EFCC and send the right signal to them that we are not people that can be cowed.”

Besides the directive to file contempt against the EFCC, the Rivers State governor further directed the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to commence diligent prosecution of the illegal financial dealings of the former Rivers State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Mr. Tonye Cole, Sahara Energy and others over the sale of state assets.

“Attorney General, you’re at a critical period where people want to know what the State is going to do with the Judiciary Panel of Inquiry after the Supreme Court judgement on it. Luckily, you came at the right time when we have preferred criminal charges against the former governor (Amaechi), Sahara Energy, Tonye Cole and the rest of them.”

Governor Wike said there is need for Rivers people and the rest of the world to know what actually happened to the $50 million Dollar that disappeared from state’s account without a proof of business where it was deployed.

“So, you are coming at the right time to take over the matter and to make sure it is prosecuted diligently. I don’t want to hear excuses. Let the people see what happened to our money. The world will see how $50 million Dollar from our account was moved to a company without nothing to show whether there was a business.”

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