The Special Presidential
Investigation Panel For Recovery of Public Property has provided reasons it
arrested the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC,
Senator Hope Uzodinma, on Sunday.
Okoi Obono-Obla, Chairman of the
panel, said the lawmaker, who represents Imo West at the National Assembly, was
arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.
He disclosed that the panel was
investigating the lawmaker over his company’s failure to execute contract of
$12 million for the dredging of Calabar channel awarded by Nigerian Port
Authority, NPA.
“This evening, at about 8.20pm,
operatives of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel For Recovery of
Public Property at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport arrested the APC
governorship candidate in Imo State, Hope Uzodinma.
“He was disembarking from an Air
Peace P47324 flight from Lagos.
“The panel is investigating
economic sabotage against Senator Uzodinma arising out of the failure of his
company to execute a contract of $12m for the dredging of Calabar channel
awarded by the NPA,” Obono-Obla, said in a brief statement.
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