Former Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi has said no anti-corruption agency in the country can probe him.

Ex Governor, Rotimi Amaechi

Recall that there were reports that the immediate past governor of Rivers, alongside other former governors like Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano); Sullivan Chime (Enugu); Babatunde Fashola (Lagos); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Shehu Shema (Katsina) and Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State were being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and related offences Commission.

However, The Punch reports that Chief Tony Okocha, a former aide to Amaechi, hinted that the ex-governor was not scared of ICPC or the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as long as the probe was not a malicious attempt .

Okocha, further reminded The Punch of how the anti-graft bodies had not vacated a court order denying any of them from investigating any Rivers Government official and as such could not probe him. He said that Governor Nyesom Wike was a beneficiary of such order from the court, adding that until the court injunction was vacated, it would be out of the law for the ICPC to investigate Amaechi.

“I have always said that Amaechi is not afraid of the EFCC or the ICPC as long as such probe is not a witch-hunt. Again, there is a court order that the EFCC or other agency like it cannot probe any government official in the state. Wike is a beneficiary of that court order.

“Until that court order is vacated, the ICPC or the EFCC have no right to investigate Amaechi. Since what they are going to investigate is his (Amaechi’s) activities while in government, the EFCC and the ICPC do not have such right to do so based on the standing court order.”

However, Fashola, while speaking at the 16th annual Bishop Mike Okonkwo Lecture in Lagos, “I will not respond to allegations of corruption on the pages of newspapers.”

Meanwhile, the former governor of Rivers state, why Goodluck Jonathan, Patience Jonathan and Wike were unable to remove him as governor of Rivers state.