Ex-Governor Peter Odili of Rivers State is in hot soup as acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has said that the agency will soon re-open its investigation into the alleged misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N100 billion during his tenure.

He said; “I think Rivers is the next to Lagos in terms of crime. This is the headquarter of money laundering because there is a lot of oil money here.”

“I think you can rate Port Harcourt the second to maybe Lagos, maybe because of the large space of oil deals. Nothing is going to stop us.”

“Even the issue of the court order allegedly obtained by Dr Peter Odili and co to stop the EFCC from the investigation and prosecution is still at the Supreme Court. We are on it.”

“I am telling you that, that judgement cannot stand. It will only take some time but it cannot hold and we are going to conclude the investigation.”

“There are so many investigations we are doing. I am sure the matter has suffered for about 13 years now. We are going to test it. The matter is in the Supreme Court.”

“We will follow it up. That decision that is pending in the Supreme court cannot hold water again. There is a subsequent judgment that has overridden it.”

“Other judgements say nobody, not even a judge, not even the Judiciary, not even the court can stop us from investigating and prosecuting.”