The Chairman of the state APC Caretaker Committee, Chief Tony Okocha, has challenged the Rivers State Executive Governor, Siminialaye Fubara to account for N144.2bn federal allocation received by the state from June 22, 2023 to November 2023.
Chief Tony Okocha, who paid a courtesy visit to the recognised Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Martins Amaewhule, told him to interrogate the Rivers State governor over the federal allocation given to him outside the Internally Generated Revenue of the state.
He also asserted that he felt regretful, allegding that the money allocated to Fubara he hasn’t done any development for the state. He also said that the money is being used to financised street procession and making rallies on media in support of the govenor.
According to him, he said that any of their party member who is in cohort in the gross financial malfeasance, they are not in hesistatation to exonerate the member.
He also urged the Assembly Speaker to keep a close watch on the governor, asserting that if they do nothing they are equally complicit.
According to a reliable news source from PUNCH, he said, “As a party in opposition in the state, we have received data of the sum received by the Rivers State Government from the Federal Allocation from June 22, 2023 to November 2023.
“The Rt Hon. Speaker, it is our finding that a whooping sum of N144,291,667,791.1 has been received from the federal allocation under the governor. This amount is outside the Internally Generated Revenue of the state, which is put conservatively at N10bn every month
“We regret that this humongous amount has not translated to action in any way in terms of development in the state. What we see are heavily funded street processions and media-sponsored rallies in support of unnecessary political imbroglios.
“Fifth columnist and crisis entrepreneurs feed fat from our commonwealth. As a party, we shall not hesitate to punish any member of our party who is in the cohort in this gross financial malfeasance of our dear Rivers State.”