Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo state, says the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) never recovered N7.9 billion
from him.
Okorocha was reacting to a statement credited to Imam Usman,
zonal head of the EFCC Port Harcourt office, on Thursday, that the commission
has returned N2.7 billion out of the N7.9 billion allegedly recovered from the
former governor to the state government.
In a statement on Friday, Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha’s
spokesperson, said the EFCC was misinformed to peddle falsehood against the
former governor.
He asked the anti-graft agency to publish details and owners
of the accounts where the money said to have been recovered from him was
domiciled.
“The EFCC as a commission or Mr Usman Imam as a person and
Head of Enugu zone then, and today, that of Port Harcourt Zone, of the
commission, never recovered N7.9 billion or any other amount of money, from
Rochas Okorocha,” Onwuemeodo said.
“With this denial, we therefore challenge EFCC or Mr. Imam
as the one who made the claim, to prove us wrong by publishing details of the
bank accounts the money was found and the owners of the accounts.
“We hold the EFCC and its personnel in a very high esteem.
And we expect the commission or Mr. Imam to take our denial very serious,
because Nigerians of goodwill would like to know who is saying the truth or who
is lying.
“Where the commission finds out that it had misinformed the
public and had also blackmailed the former Imo governor, perhaps unconsciously,
we expect the commission or Mr. Imam to do the needful, which is to retract the
media statement and then tell Nigerians the correct story. The N7.9 billion in
question must be in bank accounts. Let the EFCC publish the accounts’ details
without delay”.
“Mr Imam talked about properties owned by Okorocha which the
commission had marked. It is also important that Mr. Imam publish those
properties because the properties marked had been acquired by Okorocha about
twenty years ago.”
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