Retract Allegations Against Amaechi, APC Tells Inyang

PORT HARCOURT —ALL Progressives
Congress, APC, in Rivers State has called on
Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court,
to retract his allegation of bribery levelled
against Minister of Transportation, Mr
Chibuike Amaechi, within seven days or risk
law suit.
Chairman of the party, Mr Davies Ikanya, in a
statement by his media aide, alleged that the
bribery allegation by the apex court justice
against Amaechi violated the Corrupt
Practices and other Related Offence Act
2000.
Meanwhile, Foundation for Human Rights and
Anti-Corruption Crusade, FHRACC, has
demanded an immediate investigation into
the allegation of attempted bribery made
byJustice Okoro against Amaechi, and the
APC governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom
State, Mr. Umana Umana.
Also, Centre for the Vulnerable and the
Underprivileged, CENTREP, has slammed the
Department of State Services, DSS, and the
Nigeria Police over the invasion of the
private residences of seven serving judges
across the country, describing same as
ridiculous and an attempt to rubbish the
judiciary.
FHRACC, yesterday, in a statement by its
National President, Alaowie Cleric, said:
“Maintaining a graveyard silence on these
serious allegations while judges’ homes are
unconstitutionally invaded in the name of
anti-corruption war, will put a question mark
on the sincerity of the Federal Government’s
mission. This is a test case for the
government to purge itself of the allegations
of bias and selective anti-corruption fight.
“Now that the government has declared a
total war on corruption, we charge Mr.
President to beam his searchlight on some of
his appointees with priority attention given to
the N500 million MTN Nigeria bribery
allegations against the Chief of Staff and the
N270 million scam against Secretary to the
Government of the Federation.”