Amaechi sacked his entire executive cabinet to inflate the Monorail Project cost - Ministry tells Rivers Probe Panel

Amaechi sacked his entire cabinet to inflate the Monorail Project cost - Ministry tells Rivers Probe Panel

The Head of Safety and Aviation Department in the Rivers State Ministry of Transport, Mr. Saya Antiok, said on Thursday that the former state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, sacked his cabinet during his first term in office in order to award the monorail contract to a firm, TSI Property and Investment Holding Limited. Antiok suggested that the cabinet was sacked in order for Amaechi to inflate the contract cost.

This is coming as it has been revealed that the Amaechi’s government had spent over N33.9 billion from the initial N50 billion earmarked for the entire Phase One of the controversial monorail project. The original scope of the monorail project is 21.7 kilometers and valued at Two hundred and fifty million Euros (€250m). 

Emma Chinda and other aides of Amaechi face arrest as they continue to dodge Rivers State probe panel

Emma Chinda and other aides of Amaechi continue to dodge Rivers State probe panel: A clear proof of their guilt. Panel approves their arrests

• Avoidance of panel is a  clear indication of their guilt. 
• Panel approves their arrests

For the second day running, former Commissioner for Agriculture in Rivers State, Emma Chinda, failed to honour the invitation by the judicial commission of inquiry probing the alleged diversion of the N4 billion agricultural loan released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the former Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s administration.In the same vein, 12 former local government chairmen in the state also failed to appear before the commission of inquiry at its second sitting in Port Harcourt, on Tuesday.