By Trace Reporter on July 26th 2016Following the recent report from the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), to re-opens corruption cases against 30 ex- Governors the Federal Government has concluded arrangement to prove 30 former governors that has serve under APC and PDP.
From the report, two former governors from South south are affected, one from River state, the immediate governor who happens to be the major sponsor of APC, Rotimi Amechi.
If Rotimi Amechi is found guilty, he will be relieve of his appointment as the minister of transport.
It will be recalled that the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abukakar Malami, on Monday ordered the reopening of corruption cases for which they were earlier investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission.
Sources in the ICPC confirmed on Monday that the ICPC had last week, received a letter to that effect from the office of the AGF.
According to the letter, affected personalities, served as governors under (now) All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, either one or two terms between 1999 and 2015, and are from all the six geopolitical zones in the country.
Those to be charged are two former governors from the South-South.
Five of the former governors are from the South-East, and three from the South-West.
Others are six from the North-West; six from the North-East, and eight from the North-Central.
The AGF’s letter indicated that the cases against some of the former governors had been investigated some years ago but charges were never filed against them.
The letter partly read, “It is clear that some of these governors and other politically-exposed persons have not been charged to court despite the fact that the ICPC has concluded their investigations concerning allegations levelled against them for one reason or the other.
“It is the position of the present administration that all ex-governors that the ICPC had long concluded investigations into the various allegations levelled against them should be immediately prosecuted.”
The letter also gave the Chairman of the ICPC a 14-day ultimatum to “remit the duplicate case files concerning the politically-exposed persons investigated by the ICPC over the years” to the office of the AGF.
The letter indicated that this was in the exercise of the powers vested in the AGF by Section 174(1) of the Constitution as well as sections 105 (3) and 106 (a) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.
The AGF’s letter also requested files of other high-profile cases involving politically-exposed persons.
The AGF letter defines high-profile cases as cases “involving alleged misconduct amounting to economic sabotage; involving complex financial transactions or property movement; involving any of the suspects, who is a politician, a public officer or judicial officer; and where the subject matter involves government or corruption of its official or involves the abuse of office.”
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