A former Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on
Prosecution Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has reacted to the sentencing of Obong Bassey
Albert, the governorship candidate of YPP in Akwa Ibom State by a Federal High
Court Uyo to 42 years imprisonment.
He has proclaimed that God has vindicated him.
As chairman of Special Presidential Investigation Panel for
the Recovery of Public Property, Obono-Obla handled several big-time corruption
cases in the country.
These affected many politicians, which, analysts said, led
to allegations against him, and which mounted pressures for his removal from
office.
He said, “The Almighty God keeps on vindicating the good
work I did as Chairman of the SPIPRPP.
“I did my work courageously, diligently, and with a high sense
of probity which ordinarily would have won me a commendation.
“Rather I was framed, victimized, maligned, persecuted, and
prosecuted.
“Today, the Federal High Court Uyo, Akwa Ibom State
sentenced to 42 years imprisonment, Senator Albert Akpan for corruption.”
Obono-Obla explained that Albert was investigated and
prosecuted by his panel for the acquisition of assets worth hundreds of
millions of pounds in the United Kingdom and Nigeria which he failed to
disclose in his assets declaration form.
According to the former presidential aide, Albert was one of
the senators that used a kangaroo panel constituted by the House of
Representatives to get back at him for daring to investigate some powerful
senators in 2018.
Obono-Obla disclosed that another of such senators which his
panel had also investigated is languishing in a prison in the United Kingdom.
It would be recalled that the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) had, in 2019, arraigned Albert on a six-count charge of
allegedly taking possession of six vehicles worth N204 million when he was
finance commissioner in the state.
Investigation revealed that Albert had collected one of the
vehicles from one Jide Omokore, who was an associate of Diezani Alison Madueke,
former Minister of Petroleum.
Omokore reportedly had dealings with the state when he
offered Bassey the vehicle.
Delivering judgment on Thursday, Agatha Okeke, the presiding
judge, found the senator guilty of the offences.
Consequently, he was sentenced to Ikot Ekpene prison to
serve his jail term.
Albert is a serving senator representing Akwa Ibom
north-east district.
He had defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to
fulfil his governorship ambition on the platform of Young Progressives Party.
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