The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, has commenced investigation of the governorship candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State, Emmanuel Jime.
Jime is under EFCC investigation
over alleged N205 million fraud under him as Managing Director, Nigerian Export
Processing Zones Authority, NEPZA.
The petition against Jime was
submitted to EFCC by the Nigerian Guild of Investigative Journalists, NGIJ last
month at the commission’s headquarters, Abuja.
NGIJ had urged EFCC to
investigate the N205 million which Jime has been accused of perpetrating as MD
of NEPZA.
The former House of
Representatives member for Makurdi/Guma Federal Constituency was indicted by
the Senate Committee on Trade and Investment which uncovered N205 million fraud
in Export Processing Zones Authority, NEPZA budget of 2018.
NGIJ had earlier called for
speedy investigation into the fraud allegation against Jime and wondered why
President Muhammadu Buhari chose to keep him as head of a major government
agency such as NEPZA after the Senate Committee headed by Senator Sabo Mohammed
discovered the fraud in the 2018 budget of NEPZA.
The group had also implied that
the foot-dragging of the Buhari-led APC government has raised doubts over its
sincerity to fight corruption if it finds it impossible to probe allegations of
scandal, budget padding and inflation levelled against some of its appointees.
“Eleven months after Senate
uncovered N205m fraud in Export Processing Zones Authority, NEPZA, EFCC and the
Federal Government still allow the case to be floored under the carpet
notwithstanding the Senate Committee’s report that the Defense of the agency
Managing Director, Emmanuel Jime is not Convincing enough”, NGIJ had stated.
The said fraud was uncovered when
Jime and other top officials of NEPZA appeared before the Senate Committee for
their 2018 budget defence.
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