I Don’t Smoke, Drink, What Do I Need Money For? – Amaechi

The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has dismissed insinuations that he is a lover of money, saying he doesn’t need money for anything.

Speaking in an interview with Vanguard on Sunday, the former Rivers State governor further claimed that he doesn’t take alcohol or smoke cigarette.

He said he will continue to criticize members of the Peoples Democratic Party, for allegedly looting the nation for almost 16 years, because he is not a corrupt politician, including when he served under the PDP government.

He said: “I ask people ‘what do I need money for?’ I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I am not the one with luxurious houses and cars and it is like what I said when I became governor. I said Nigerian politicians actually commit what they call manslaughter, which is killing by accident when you don’t have intention to kill. How do we politicians kill by accident?

Speaking further, Amaechi alleged that politicians are killing Nigerians by diverting monies meant for specific projects in the country into personal pocket.

According to him, some politicians’ loot money meant for the building of hospitals thereby causing the death of Nigerians.

“The money that is meant for the people and earmarked to be used for building hospitals, you take it for your private use and the hospitals are not built and so Nigerians go to hospitals where there are no drugs and they die without knowing it. For me, you have committed manslaughter and the problem for me is that Nigerians don’t hold us accountable!

“You see how the economy runs and that is the economy of Nigeria and we are saying it just cannot continue, the economy has to be productive; that is what the president is saying. If you want to have access to the national economy, to the national treasury, then everybody should have that access, it should not be where only few of us who have access to it should loot the economy of Nigeria,” the minister added.