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LAWYERS DEMAND PROBE OF AMAECHI




Image result for rotimi amaechi latest newsThe embattled Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has come under increasing attack to resign over his deepening involvement in corruption.  Two Supreme Court Judges, Justices Inyang Okoro and Sylvester Ngwuta, lately made damaging allegations against him in separate letters addressed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Muhammad.  They alleged that Mr. Amaechi bandied the name of Mr. President in mandating them to deliver Judgments in favor of APC’s appeals in Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and Abia States.  Mr. Amaechi had earlier come under series of attacks in his handling of Rivers State finances as former Governor and his misappropriation of a whopping 32 billion naira earmarked for a failed Power project.  “Amaechi is having too many baggages and the President should do away with him”, said Mr. Adetokunbo Mumini of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.  The Coalition for Transparency Accountability and Good Governance through their Spokesman, Mr. Mike Opia said “It was time he steps down as he is making Mr. President’s fight against corruption difficult”.  As for Mr. Liborous Oshoma, a practicing lawyer, he said, “Mr. Amaechi should leave office quietly because what is good for the goose is sauce for the gander”.

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