The Rivers State House of Assembly led by Speaker Martins Amaewhule has called on the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offenses Commission (ICPC) to investigate the chairperson of the Rivers State electoral body.
Amaewhule made the call in his remarks during the plenary at the Assembly quarters complex in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
He said that the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) Chairman, Adolphus Enebeli, a retired judge, should be investigated for alleged misappropriation of the commission’s funds.
The speaker said that it is the duty of the Rivers State House of Assembly that enacted the state Independent Electoral Commission law and set up the state’s Independent Electoral Commission to exercise oversight over it, hence, it had become necessary for the House to invite the EFCC and ICPC to assist it, in pursuit of its investigative powers, to find out how funds were spent by the commission.
He said that the anti-graft commissions should also investigate how public funds were expended by the chairman, who is the chief accounting officer of the commission, in a manner that was unknown to the Assembly.
Amaewhule said that there was no approval, no budgetary allocation, no appropriation law, and billions of public funds went down the drain in futile actions.
He said that the motion and the prayers were voted in favour by 26 members against nil.
