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Investigation: Okorocha Says He Won’t Join Issues With Magu
Rochas Okorocha has pledged not to exchange words with Ibrahim Magu, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, over his claim that the commission was investigating him.
Governor Okorocha, however, expressed concern that Magu’s claim that he was investigating him came just two days after the head of the Southeast Zone of the EFCC, Usman Imam made the same claims that he was being investigated.
He said it appeared that his political opponents who had been blocking his move to the Senate may have also taken the option of the EFCC to confront him.
While claiming that the commission was only doing its work by investigating, he said that he was not anyway bothered as investigation did not amount to indictment.
In the press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemedo, the Imo State governor said:
“We won’t join issues with the EFCC as an Institution and with Alhaji Magu as an individual. Investigating individuals, governments, institutions etc, is part of the Commission’s own rules of engagement and nobody should prevent them or begrudge them for doing that. We only pray that the Commission should not allow undue infiltration.
“Good enough, both Alhaji Magu and Mr. Imam never accused the governor of mismanagement or diversion, looking at the Contents of their Press Conferences. They confirmed that the Commission is in Custody of the money. Out of the N8billion they quoted, they also confirmed that N7.9billion is what they blocked. Then, what is Owelle’s case? And the governor is not owing salary.
“Mr. Imam also threw a kite which could not fly when he told his audience that if not for their timely intervention “Over N5billion would have allegedly been deployed in vote-buying by Okorocha’s administration”. How he arrived at that conclusion is what he never said. In other words, he believed what the petitioners wrote. Since investigation is still on, perhaps, at the end of it, the truth will become clearer especially when the incident happened long before the 2019 elections. And one could not have bought votes in the vacuum. Ultimately, vote-buying must be on the election day and perhaps, at the Polling Units where the voters were expected to be.
“Alhaji Magu is doing a good job as the head of the EFCC. But he should keep the 5th Columnists at arms length. He should not eat with them even with the longest spoon. With more than one thousand landmark and verifiable projects to his credit, Governor Okorocha must have managed the resources of the State in his time as governor with high sense of prudence. And for patriotic Imo people, he remains the Defending Champion of the Imo governorship since what he has achieved in eight years exceeded all that those before him had achieved put together.”
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