And here we were believing that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission could probe any former government official.
But it appears that there’s an existing court order in Rivers state preventing the EFCC and its sister-agency, the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, from probing Rotimi Amaechi.
Consequently, the immediate past Governor of Rivers State, has boasted that no anti-corruption agency in the country can probe him.
Just when it was revealed that Amaechi and some other governors were being probed by the ICPC, Tony Okocha, a former aide to Amaechi, revealed to Punch that the ICPC and EFCC had not yet vacated a court order stopping them from investigating any Rivers Government official and therefore, could not probe him.
He stated that it would be illegal for the ICPC to probe Amaechi.
“I have always said that Amaechi is not afraid of the EFCC or the ICPC as long as such probe is not a witch-hunt. Again, there is a court order that the EFCC or other agency like it cannot probe any government official in the state. Wike is a beneficiary of that court order.
“Until that court order is vacated, the ICPC or the EFCC have no right to investigate Amaechi. Since what they are going to investigate is his (Amaechi’s) activities while in government, the EFCC and the ICPC do not have such right to do so based on the standing court order.”
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