An NGO in Rivers state has urged Buhari to extend his anti-corruption war to Rivers state where ruins were allegedly left behind by corruption.
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi
A group, Rivers Awake, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to assist the government of Rivers State, recover a sum of N3trillion, said to have been looted from the state in the past years, according to the Nigerian Tribune.
The group, in a statement signed by three of its leaders, including Messrs Dagogo Ferdinand, Ezenwa Wodi and Ezekiel Amachree, said that a chunk of Rivers money also went into the presidential primaries and campaigns of the All Progressives Congress(APC).
The group said specifically that between 2007 and 2015, federal allocations accruing to the state totaled N3trillion, but expressed surprised that as at May 2015, workers were owed months of salary arrears, while a number of projects were abandoned.
The group said: “Looking back, it is puzzling that with the volume of funds that accrued to Rivers State, workers were owed salaries for four months, aged pensioners were not paid their pensions for eight months, and teachers were not paid for over 12 months.
“There were also the abandoned N60 billion mono-rail project and the N3billion Woji Road that was varied to N14 billion, yet abandoned but completed by the current government. Another was the 250-bed Karibi-Whyte hospital that the immediate past administration effortlessly dumped after huge funds had been drawn down on it."
It should be noted that the current Minister of Transport, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi was the governor of the state for 8 years while the funds in question were misappropriated.!
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