Ministerial screening: I have never taken bribe in my life – Amaechi
After being drilled for over fifty minutes by the Senate today Wednesday, former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has been asked to take a bow.
Declaring at the screening of his nomination as a Minister, he said, “I have never taken bribe in my life,” Amaechi disclosed that “Corruption is a very broad concept. It is difficult for me to define corruption.”
Amaechi, who brought a copy of the white paper containing the report of the Panel of Inquiry instituted by the Rivers State government, declared that there is nowhere in the report where he was indicted.
Disclosing that, “I have the full report here and there is no place in it where I was ‘indicted’ for corruption,” he said: “If the senate president permits me, I’ll lay the full report before the senate.”
He revealed that the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, which he chaired at some point, was formed to check executive recklessness, revealing that, “the radical nature of the governors’ forum made the former president to tell me that I have turned the governors’ forum into a trade union.”
In the course of his screening, he declared that, “we must diversify the economy. We need to invest heavily in education. We must improve on the social welfare of the people. If we do this, there will be peace.”
