With the defeat of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in just the concluded gubernatorial election in Rivers State, information reaching our news room had it that, some commissioners have entangled themselves in looting of public funds and property.
Office furniture, gadgets, computer accessories and other equipment are illegally moving out of the offices of some of the serving commissioners by their Personal Assistants and Political Aides.
An impeccable source hinted this weekly that on Monday one of the aides of a commissioner from Ikwerre extraction was caught packing some property owed by the state government in the state secretariat complex.
Security men raised an alarm, but the aide told them that he was directed by his boss to move the said property out of the office. Sources further told our correspondent that funds meant for the running of ministries were diverted by some commissioners to their personal bank accounts.
We gathered that billions of naira is currently missing in the various ministries and parastatals. Our reporter who revisited the state secretariat complex on Tuesday reported that most of the offices of the commissioners are deserted and silent as grave yard.
The report also contained that looting has become the order of the day, as the commissioners have directed their aides to move any valuable property out of the State Secretariat Complex.
A civil servant who spoke to this weekly on Tuesday, on the ondition of anonymity disclosed that the offices of some of the commissioners are empty, because very valuable properties including computers and photocopy machines have been secretly taken out.
He said that the incoming commissioners will suffer the reason is that there is nothing for them to work with. According to him as if they (commissioners) used broom to sweep the entire ministries.
He called on the Governor-Elect, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike to constitute a committee when he (Governor-Elect) resumes office to probe the activities of the out-coming commissioners, because they don’t have the interest of the state at heart. ###
