Ex-Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, now Minister of Transport, made a shocking confession recently.

“My first confrontation with bribe was with a big contractor in Rivers State. After awarding the contract, he brought a billion naira. I screamed. I asked, ‘where did you get the money?’ and he said from what he got from the contract and I said ‘look, that means you over-quoted the contract’. I said ‘the only reason you are giving me N1 billion was because if the contract was N32 billion, you made it N37 billion’.”

“I have been special assistant to a governor for two years; speaker, eight years; governor, eight years; minister nearly two years…that’s nearly twenty years. So I know Nigerian politics well.”