posted by Som Offor.
A Rivers State High Court sitting in
Port Harcourt, yesterday August 20th dismissed the suit filed by former
governor of the state, Chibuike Amaechi, challenging the judicial
commission of enquiry set up by the incumbent governor, Nyesom Wike to
probe the sale of state assets during Amaechi's administration.At
the hearing of the suit filed by Amaechi, the presiding judge, Justice
Simeon Amadi, stated that contrary to Amaechi's assumption, the
Commission of Enquiry was not established to investigate his personal
activities while in government but was set up to investigate activities
of his government as it affected the people of the state and that there
was no law against a state government probing how her resources was used
by a previous administration.
The presiding judge also stated that Amaechi’s claim that the 30 days set aside for the sitting of the judicial commission of Enquiry would deny him fair hearing was only speculative as the days for the commission of enquiry could be extended if need be. The judge said Amaechi could not make such assumptions of been denied fair hearing when he had neither filed a memorandum before the commission nor appeared before it.
Court okays probe of Amaechi’s administration by Wike
The presiding judge also stated that Amaechi’s claim that the 30 days set aside for the sitting of the judicial commission of Enquiry would deny him fair hearing was only speculative as the days for the commission of enquiry could be extended if need be. The judge said Amaechi could not make such assumptions of been denied fair hearing when he had neither filed a memorandum before the commission nor appeared before it.
He concluded by saying “The
judiciary is not only the last hope of the common man, but it is also
the last hope of the mighty and movers and shakers of democracy. Those,
who by the benevolence of the judiciary got to power, should resist the
temptation to emasculate the judiciary.”
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