Executive Course<\/a>\u00a035 from the Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos paid him a visit in Port Harcourt as part of their tour and analysis of the nation\u2019s transformation agenda, confirmed his administration alleged \u2018priority misplacement and financial recklessness\u2019 by clearing air on the status of its aircraft, admitting that \u201cit is a foreign-registered aircraft and therefore enjoys the status of a US citizen\u201d, yet with Rivers State tax payers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Earlier, the Rivers State Government restated that no agency of the federal government has communicated to it the story doing the rounds about the grounding of its aircraft. The aircraft, a Bombardier BD 700 Global Express jet, and its passengers, were first delayed at Akure before officials of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said the aircraft had no valid permit to fly in the Nigerian airspace. The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Ibim Semenitari, in a press release issued in Port Harcourt said the state was dismayed by statements attributed to officials of different agencies in the aviation sector about the aircraft owned by the state.<\/p>\n
Her words: \u201cIt is pertinent to note that all of the information and queries about this aircraft have only been through the mass media. The Rivers State Government has not received any communication from the Ministry of Aviation or any of its agencies querying the status of its aircraft even up till this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amaechi\u2019s Indebtedness before he became Speaker<\/b><\/p>\n
Naija Standard<\/i><\/b> can assure you that the indebtedness, carefree and extravagant lifestyle of this incumbent governor of River State made him to allegedly borrow various huge sums of money from some political elites before and while as Speaker which till date had not paid back. Our correspondent gathered that Amaechi collected various sums of money in disguise. Listen to this statement by Opara: \u201cOver one point six (1.6) trillion, the state is owes over N200 billion. You said Amaechi has performed, what is performance? The classroom, those classrooms where\u2026 I can tell you the principle behind the award of the classrooms and the health centres. People are saying he has built classrooms and health centres, they were meant to patronise political associates and his loyalists.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he came in he needed to arrange contract for his boys. Each of the classroom blocks was awarded for over a hundred and ten (110) million, which is just for about 200 people, ditto the health centres. Do you buy doctors across the counter? Because they build the health centres, where are the doctors, where are the nurses? What of the equipment, where are the teachers for those classrooms? Where is the furniture? He has to do that to patronise his boys and political associates. That was the principle, it wasn’t meant to develop the education sector or the health sector. How many of them are in use today as we speak? He repaid Odili\u2019s kindness with evil.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Amaechi\u2019s unpopularity in Rivers State<\/b><\/p>\n
Opara added: \u201cClearly, as we speak Amaechi is not a member of PDP, he has been suspended, and he is certainly not a member. Unfortunate for him he’s gone to court, so the matter is in court, he has no business with PDP. The earlier he leaves for another party the better for him and the system, the better for all. But I can assure you that Rivers State is a PDP state and will remain a PDP state. Rivers State does not need Amaechi or PDP does not need Amaechi to win Rivers State certainly. Amaechi is unpopular in Rivers State, that I can tell you and that has been shown in the recent outing, the thanksgiving, the arrival of the Felix Obuah led exco to Rivers State, the inauguration that has shown that Rivers’ people are tired of Amaechi.\u201d<\/p>\n
FBI, CIA, EFCC, ICPC Place Amaechi under Radar<\/b><\/p>\n
Going by our undercover investigations, the embattled Governor of Rivers State is presently placed secretly under the radar of local and foreign security operatives, as Naija Standard gathered that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent and Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have all discreetly been understudying various moves made by Amaechi regarding his \u2018financial expenditures and recklessness.\u2019<\/p>\n
EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: We shall surely keep you updated on this story.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>ROTIMI <\/b>Chibuike Amaechi, Rivers State Governor from all indications is becoming \u2018a cat with nine lives.\u2019 Not only is he confronting the spiralling after-effect of the controversial Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), of which the chairmanship position is still in contention with Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State; but he is fighting on all fronts at present as the resonance effect of the on-going face-off between pro-anti Amaechi in River State House of Assembly, if not properly checked may consume him and his administration. His obvious activities to contest Nigeria\u2019s Presidency Election 2015 has led us to uncover his past before been a Speaker as \u2018a homeless politician\u2019 who squats in three homes of various Rivers State indigenes before been picked up by Dr. Peter Odili; a former governor of same state whom he allegedly betrayed. As at when he became governor, his net worth is placed at $13.8billion by Forbes Magazine.<\/p>\n