PDP Needs Amaechi, Usman’s Sacking, Prosecution
The Peoples Democratic Party has demanded the immediately sacking, investigation and prosecution of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as properly as the suspended Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman.
The party based totally its demand on the “over-exposed looting of over N165 billion” in the NPA.
The PDP additionally stated Amaechi has questions to reply regarding the mentioned involvement of his wife, Mrs. Edith Amaechi, in “the uncovered N48 billion contract rip-off presently rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission.”
This is contained in a declaration signed by using the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, and issued on May 10, 2021.
The assertion examine partly, “The foul stench of corruption oozing out of the NPA, NDDC and different companies of authorities in the ultimate six years has proven that our MDAs have turn out to be the money cows and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of grasping leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their cronies in authorities in their unbridled looting of our patrimony beneath President Muhammadu Buhari’swatch.
“Our birthday celebration asserts that the truth that it took the minister a clear six years (2016 to 2021) to question the NPA Managing Director over the alleged looting of N165 billion unremitted working surplus of the agency, which is below his purview, is suspect and raises public faith that he (Amaechi) solely acted interestingly to shied himself after indicting audit files had already been exposed.
“This is in addition to reviews from the workplace of Auditor General which additionally unearthed the looting of unremitted deduction to Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) amounting to N3,667.750,470 $148.845,745.04, Euro 4,891,449 50 and £252.682.14 beneath the suspended NPA Managing Director and Amaechi’s ministerial supervision.
“The audit document additionally uncovered every other N15.18 billion allegedly siphoned via shady Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) tasks by using the NPA, an employer below Amaechi’s ministerial purview. The PDP, therefore, rejects the apparent try at a coverup in the recourse to an Administrative Panel of Enquiry encouraged with the aid of the Transport Minister to look at the NPA fraud, in which he additionally has some questions to answer.
“Our celebration insists that each the minister and the indicted NPA Managing Director need to be exceeded over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigation and feasible prosecution.