{"id":14028,"date":"2017-04-15T07:25:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T07:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=14028"},"modified":"2017-04-15T07:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T07:25:46","slug":"43-found-in-ikoyi-rivers-claims-ownership-rotimi-amaechi-denies-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=14028","title":{"rendered":"$43 FOUND IN IKOYI: RIVERS CLAIMS OWNERSHIP, ROTIMI AMAECHI DENIES OWNERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State Governor has given the Federal Government \u00a0an ultimatum of 7 days to return \u00a0the $43million dollars \u00a0found in a luxury apartment in Ikoyi \u00a0to the Rivers State Government , failure which the State Government \u00a0will take legal measures to ensure \u00a0that it gets back her stolen \u00a0resources<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Governor Nyesom Wike \u00a0also declared that the $43million dollars found in the luxury apartment \u00a0in Ikoyi belongs \u00a0to \u00a0the \u00a0Rivers State Government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Governor Wike said that investigations by the Rivers State Government \u00a0revealed \u00a0that the money \u00a0was proceed from the sale of gas turbines by the immediate past Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Addressing journalists at the Government House, Port Harcourt <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1164757612\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span> night, Governor Wike said: &#8220;The money in question \u00a0belongs to the former Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.\u00a0 We want to confirm that the houses in Ikoyi also belong to Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;If you recollect in 2015, we said that gas turbines built by Former Governor Peter Odili were sold to Sahara Energy, business partners of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi at $319million.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12865&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;That money was used to sponsor the All Progressives Congress for the 2015 general elections.\u00a0 From the date of sale of the gas turbines to \u00a0May 29, 2015, the money depleted from $319million to $204,000 . What was stashed at the Ikoyi residence \u00a0was part of that fund&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said : &#8220;We have \u00a0facts to prove that the said money belongs to the Rivers State Government.\u00a0 The Federal Government must return our money&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wike-and-Amaechi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14029\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wike-and-Amaechi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wike-and-Amaechi-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wike-and-Amaechi-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wike-and-Amaechi.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Governor Wike \u00a0said all the stories \u00a0being peddled about the money belonging to the National Intelligence Agency are false and mere face saving measures by the embattled APC Federal Government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said: &#8220;As I speak to \u00a0you, the Federal Government \u00a0is so embarrassed that this has happened.\u00a0 All the stories \u00a0that the money belongs to the NIA are fake&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Governor Wike \u00a0challenged the Federal Government to \u00a0set up \u00a0a panel of Inquiry \u00a0, which will sit publicly to investigate \u00a0the money, if it doubted the claim of the Rivers State Government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He stated that the Rivers State Government \u00a0needs the money to complete an array \u00a0of projects, insisting that on no account would this criminal \u00a0activity be swept \u00a0under the carpet.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The governor said as long as the Federal Government continues to disturb the progress of Rivers State, so long will God throw the Federal Government \u00a0into confusion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;We are giving them seven \u00a0days to return \u00a0our money. Otherwise, we would \u00a0take legal action \u00a0to recover our money. $43million \u00a0will help us complete \u00a0several \u00a0projects.\u00a0 We need that money for projects&#8221;, he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Simeon Nwakaudu,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Special Assistant to the Rivers State Governor, Electronic Media.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">14th April, 2017.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, David Iyofor, media aide of Rotimi Amaechi, minster of transportation, squared off with Lere Olayinka, spokesman of Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, over the $50 million recovered by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in lkoyi, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-graft agency had released pictures of the money, saying it was uncovered in a fire proof safe at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the owner was not revealed, leading to different reports.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Adeola, senator representing Lagos west; Adamu Mu\u2019azu, former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); and Esther Nnamdi-Obue, ex-managing director of Petroleum Products Pricing and Marketing Company (PPMC), were all linked to the money, but they denied ownership of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12865&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But Olayinka claimed that the money had been traced to Amaechi, and Iyofor debunked the claim describing him as a \u201cbig liar\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust hearing with one ear that Amaechi may have link to the House,\u201d Olayinka wrote on Twitter, and Iyofor fired back: \u201cLiar. You better hear well before your ear sends you to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not deterred, Olyinka wrote: \u201cCover up game has started! Rotimi Amaechi owns the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iyofor\u2019s responded: \u201cWhere is your proof? If you think you can link Amaechi to the house and money by tweeting this rubbish, then you need to have your head examined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Liar! Demonic Liar! Listen, you disgusting pig, Rotimi Amaechi is not connected or linked in anyway whatsoever to the house &amp;\/or money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State Governor has given the Federal Government \u00a0an ultimatum of 7 days to return \u00a0the $43million dollars \u00a0found in a luxury apartment in Ikoyi \u00a0to the Rivers State Government , failure which the State Government \u00a0will take legal measures to ensure \u00a0that it gets back her stolen \u00a0resources \u00a0Governor Nyesom Wike \u00a0also declared that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[3692,3693,1328,462,3691],"class_list":["post-14028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-adamu-muazu","tag-esther-nnamdi-obue","tag-gov-nyesom-wike","tag-rotimi-amaechi","tag-sahara-energy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Wike-and-Amaechi.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-3Eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14030,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14028\/revisions\/14030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}