I Did Not Surrender N7.9 Billion To EFCC – Okorocha

By GWG Staff

Senator Rochas Okorocha has taken the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to task over its claim that it recovered N7.9 billion in cash from him.

Okorocha, the immediate past governor of Imo State speaking through his spokesman, Sam Onwuemeodo challenged the EFCC to also publish the houses in Abuja and Owerri supposedly belonging to him that were marked for recovery.

He put the faceoff with the EFCC on the Emeka Ihedioha administration and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who supposedly wrote petitions against him.

The reactions followed media quotes by Mr. Usman Imam, head of Port Harcourt Zone, of the commission in which he said that N7.9 billion was recovered from Okorocha

“We 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.”

On the case of seized properties belonging to the Okorocha’s in Owerri and Abuja, he challenged “Mr. Imam to  publish those properties because the properties marked had been acquired by Okorocha about twenty years ago. Since Mr. Imam has begun media trial, let the properties be also published for Nigerians to know the truth.

“We have repeatedly told this story, that before the 2019  election, the PDP elements in Imo had written to the EFCC, alleging that Okorocha had planned to use all the state funds to finance the election of his choice candidates.

“The EFCC, leveraging on the petitions, seized all the accounts of the state including the ones meant for the payment of salaries, pensions, severance allowances and so on. We have made this particular claim severally and the EFCC or any other interested person or persons have never faulted our claim.

“It has also been on the basis of these petitions written by the PDP government then led by Chief Emeka Ihedioha against Okorocha and the family, that the EFCC has been on the neck of Okorocha.

“Even after that Government had petitioned the commission and the commission acting on the petitions, the government also instituted more than twelve commissions and panels to probe Okorocha and family, on the same issues or items the EFCC is investigating.

“Some of the panels have submitted their reports to the current government in the state led by Governor Hope Uzodinma while others are still sitting and equally conducting media trials on Okorocha.

“Obviously, the EFCC has been misinformed. And the commission is using such misinformation to carry out media trial on Okorocha and in some cases, has even convicted him before the trial which Mr. Imam had talked about.

“We want to reiterate that EFCC has not recovered any money from Okorocha including the N7.9 billion claimed by Mr. Imam. And it is left for EFCC to prove us wrong.

“And if the commission discovers that our claim is the correct story, Mr. Imam should retract the media  statement and tell the world the correct story.”

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