Former Gov. Rochas Okorocha
Former governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha has challenged the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee to publish particulars of the N7.9 billion the company alleged it recovered from him.
The Head of the Port Harcourt zone of the EFCC, Mr. Usman Imam, at a press convention on Thursday had mentioned he recovered N7.9 billion from Okorocha whereas he was accountable for the Enugu zone of the fee.
The EFCC chief was additionally quoted to have mentioned Okorocha’s property had been marked in Owerri and Abuja by the fee.
Nevertheless, reacting to the allegations in an announcement issued in Owerri, Okorocha said that the anti-graft company or anyone else by no means recovered N7.9 billion or every other sum of money from him.
The previous governor challenged the fee to show him flawed by publishing particulars and homeowners of the accounts the mentioned cash was recovered from.
He additionally challenged the EFCC to publish the small print of the mentioned property it marked and seized from him, emphasizing that the property had been acquired by him about twenty years in the past.
In keeping with him, the fee was misinformed by those that had been after him.
He mentioned he would expect a retraction of the story and public apology from the EFCC within the coming days if the fee couldn’t publish particulars of the so-called N7.9 billion.
The assertion signed by his media adviser, Sam Onwuemeodo, reads: “The EFCC as a fee or Mr Usman Imam as an individual and Head of Enugu zone then, and at the moment, that of Port Harcourt Zone, of the fee, by no means recovered N7.9 billion or every other sum of money, from Rochas Okorocha
“With this denial, we, due to this fact, problem the EFCC or Mr. Imam because the one who made the declare, to show us flawed by publishing particulars of the financial institution accounts the cash was discovered and the homeowners of the accounts.
“We maintain the EFCC and its personnel in very excessive esteem. And we count on the fee or Mr. Imam to take our denial very severe as a result of Nigerians of goodwill want to know who’s saying the reality or who’s mendacity.
“The place the fee finds out that it had misinformed the general public and had additionally blackmailed the previous Imo governor, maybe unconsciously, we count on the fee or Mr. Imam to do the needful, which is to retract the media assertion after which inform Nigerians the right story. The N7.9 billion in query should be in financial institution accounts. Let the EFCC publish the accounts’ particulars at once.”
The assertion additional provides, “Mr Imam talked about properties owned by Okorocha which the fee had marked. Additionally it is vital that Mr. Imam publish these properties as a result of the properties marked had been acquired by Okorocha about twenty years in the past. Since Mr. Imam has begun media trial, let the properties be additionally printed for Nigerians to know the reality.
“We now have repeatedly informed this story, that earlier than the 2019 election, the PDP parts in Imo had written to the EFCC, alleging that Okorocha had deliberate to make use of all of the state funds to finance the election of his alternative candidates. The EFCC, leveraging on the petitions, seized all of the accounts of the state, together with those meant for the cost of salaries, pensions, severance allowances and so forth. We now have made this specific declare severally and the EFCC or every other individual or individuals have by no means faulted our declare.”
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