{"id":179750,"date":"2025-09-22T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:59:07","slug":"ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs","title":{"rendered":"Ibas must account for Rivers\u2019 money \u2013 Annkio Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Human rights activist Annkio Briggs has alleged that the immediate past sole administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Ibas, spent the state\u2019s money and must account to the people.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs made the allegation in an interview on Sunday Politics, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Ibok-Ete Ibas) spent our money. He has to account to the people of Rivers State, even to Nigerians, for the sake of integrity and for the sake of justice and fairness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause you can\u2019t come into a state and get hold of all their resources and funds, stay there for six months, and just walk away as if you were never there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was here for six months, and within that six months, he spent our money; that\u2019s the truth. I see no reason why people wonder why we call it our money. It\u2019s our money,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Human rights activist Annkio Briggs has alleged that the immediate past sole administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Ibas, spent the state\u2019s money and must account to the people. Briggs made the allegation in an interview on Sunday Politics, a programme on Channels Television. \u201cHe (Ibok-Ete Ibas) spent our money. He has to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[18799,16417,254],"class_list":["post-179750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-annkio-briggs","tag-ibas","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ibas must account for Rivers\u2019 money \u2013 Annkio Briggs - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human rights activist Annkio Briggs has alleged that the immediate past sole administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Iba ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ibas must account for Rivers\u2019 money \u2013 Annkio Briggs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Human rights activist Annkio Briggs has alleged that the immediate past sole administrator of Rivers State, Ibok-Ete Iba ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-22T07:21:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-22T08:59:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758519029.973848.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1134\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ibas must account for Rivers\u2019 money \u2013 Annkio Briggs\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-22T07:21:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-22T08:59:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs\"},\"wordCount\":166,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758519029.973848.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Annkio Briggs\",\"Ibas\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ibas-must-account-for-rivers-money-annkio-briggs\",\"name\":\"Ibas must account for Rivers\u2019 money \u2013 Annkio Briggs - 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