The Minister of Transportation and former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said that banditry became rampant because of the poverty created by Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
Amaechi, speaking on ‘Hard Copy’ a Channels Television programme, claimed the money Jonathan left for Nigeria after he left office in May 2015, was not enough to run the country for three weeks.
Amaechi claimed that while he was chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ forum, he was informed by officials of the Presidency that there was virtually no money left in the treasury.
Amaechi said, “When you talk about bandits and all these people that kill, it’s a question about poverty and it did not start in this regime.
