Precious Elekima, governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has filed a suit seeking to compel the inspector...
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The Incorporated Trustees of Peoples Life Improvement Foundation , a group, is also a co-plaintiff in the suit marked FHC/PH/CS/199/2023 filed before a federal high court in Port-Harcourt on Tuesday. They stated that in the course of their official activities they “became aware and have reason to reasonably suspect and believe that the 4th respondent in his capacity as governor of Rivers state, during his tenure conspired with officials of the public service of Rivers state and officials of the 5th to 16th respondents to fraudulently withdraw and encash the humongous sum of N117,000,000,000 funds belonging to the Rivers state government in excess of the threshold permitted by extant laws...
The plaintiffs are praying the court to declare that the IGP, EFCC and ICPC have the statutory duties and powers to investigate their petition against Wike and some named bankers in the state.“An order of mandamus directing the 1st to 3rd respondents to investigate the criminal allegations made to them against the 4th to 16th respondents in the said petition and prosecute them or any of them found culpable of the said criminal allegations,” the plaintiffs prayed.
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