The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that
the embattled former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, is still under the
custody of the agency.
The agency said the senator will be released after meeting
his bail conditions as ordered by the court.
EFCC’s Public Relations Officer, Wilson Uwujaren, made this
known in an interview with The PUNCH.
“Former Governor Rochas Okorocha is still under protective
custody of the EFCC pending when he meets his bail conditions as ordered by the
court.
“We’re not holding back to let him go, but there are
procedures for bail, and he has to meet the required procedures as stated by
the judge in court today,” he said.
However, one of the former governor’s legal counsel, Steve
Asimobi, told our correspondent that Okorocha would be attending the ongoing
screening exercise of presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress
later today in Abuja.
Asimobi said, “His Excellency, Rochas Okorocha would be
attending the APC presidential screening later today. The court has granted him
bail. Of course, there were two options, either to remand him in Kuje prison or
the EFCC custody pending when we meet the bail condition. Hence the judge asked
the EFCC to keep him in protective custody, and that is a usual administrative
procedure. The judge also ordered the EFCC to return his international passport
to the court today with immediate effect.
“As I speak to you, the sureties required are currently in
court with all the requirements, and they’re processing it. So, once we’re done
with these, the judge would order the EFCC to release him. He’s only under the
protective custody of the EFCC based on the directive of the court.”
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