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An anti-corruption watchdog, The Integrity Group, has recanted its allegations against the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.
The group had earlier petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in a letter dated July 29, 2015 titled: “CORRUPTION, CRIMINAL BREACH OF TRUST, UNLAWFUL ENRICHMENT, AND CONVERSION OF OVER 70 BILLION NAIRA STATE RESOURCES BY FORMER GOVERNOR ROTIMI AMAECHI AND OTHER FUNCTIONARIES’’, demanding the investigation and prosecution of Rotimi Amaechi over a then falsely believed conversion of Rivers monies/proceeds of the purported sales of State Assets including Power Plants, a certain Karibi Whyte Hospital and diversion of some monies from the Rivers State Internal Revenue Service etc.
However, in a statement made available to TheNewsGuru.com via mail, the executive director of the group, Livingstone Wechie said the Rivers state government cashed into his group’s investigation and furnished them with forged documents.
He continued: “May we state that our organization, in all honesty, relying on those documents unknown to have been forged and fabricated by the Wike-led Rivers state government, subsequently advised the Rivers state government to set up a panel of inquiry to investigate these allegations among others accordingly as part of our quest to get justice for the good people of Rivers state.
“The panel did its work in fairness to the chairman, Justice George Omereji and the members and submitted their report to the governor unknown to the world that it was all politics and documents tendered were fabricated and forged out of sheer desperation to indict Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and paint him black at all costs for selfish reasons.
“This is one reason among others that the Wike-led River state government having mischievously achieved their aim of diminishing Amaechi, are still unable, two years after, to commence prosecutorial actions as of right against Rotimi Amaechi knowing that the documents will be challenged having been forged.
“Our organization as a mark of the highest responsibility owes the world a duty of honesty and trust; not being a political platform but strictly an anti-corruption watchdog to question and engage any government without fear in keeping with probity in governance.
“May we state that just as we questioned the Amaechi government on major fiscal matters during the life of his administration through our various platforms, we shall also not spare the Wike administration which has shown gross abuse of powers much more than the Rotimi Amaechi administration at an alarming degree.”