Ministerial Screening:"Overlook Petitions Against Me" – Amaechi Writes Sarak

 

It's not new to ears that previous Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi's assignment as clergyman has pulled in a few petitions.

The legislator has now composed three letters on why the Senate ought not stop his screening as a pastoral chosen one.

As per The Nation, he said the affirmations against him were false as well as made malafide with the expectation to "exclusively bother, humiliate and discolor his well deserved notoriety."

He said he ought to be assumed guiltless until the opposite is demonstrated.

He said since there are pending cases at the Federal High Court, Abuja and the Court of Appeal, any activity by the Senate will be subjudice.
He requested that the Senate save its Standing Order which bans it from fiddling with any matter pending in the witness of a court.

Amaechi ended his hush in three separate letters to the Senate's President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions.

The letters were composed by his specialist, Edward E. Pepple.

In the letters, he requested that the Senate "dispose of" the appeal against him by the Integrity Group and the Justice's report G. G. Omereji Judicial Commission of Inquiry.

Refering to the instance of ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Amaechi said the Supreme Court had underlined that an arraignment by the Judicial Commission of Inquiry or Administrative Panel is not a "prosecution" or adequate with the end goal of keeping a man from holding an open office.

The October 12 letter to Saraki (EW/GC/CRA/15/012) peruses to some extent:

:" It has casually become obvious that the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the Governor of Rivers State, Chief/Barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, to judicially examine our customer and test into a few exchanges of the Rivers State Government attempted amid the residency of our customer has purportedly think of a report in view of which the Governor and Government of Rivers State have probably additionally issued a White Paper, wherein it has suggested that sure steps and moves ought to be made against our customer.

"Obviously, this is plainly in resistance of the pending suit at the Court of Appeal on the issue.

"Mention that our customer just got to be mindful of this circumstance through a news release circulated on both the Channels Television and the Independent African Television (AIT). Aside from those, no other type of correspondence has been sent to our customer, whether straightforwardly or by implication.

"As had been specified in our before letters, our customer is testing the fitness and legitimacy of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry and its forces to settle on any substantial or tying choice or proclamation as it identifies with him.