Okorocha Asks Uzodinma To Account For N119b From FAAC

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

Senator Rochas Okorocha, representing Imo West Senatorial District has faulted the report of Justice Benjamin Iheaka Panel of Inquiry on Contracts from 2011 to 2019 set up by Governor Hope Uzodinma, asking him to the return N106 billion allegedly stolen.

Okorocha challenged the Imo State Government to publish the report of the panel, so that people can see the contractors who handled the projects during his administration.

The Senator, in a statement, on Tuesday, signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, claimed that he carried out over one thousand projects during his tenure, stressing that it is not possible for such administration to cart away over N106 billion and still carry out benefitting projects.

Okorocha asked Governor Uzodinma to account for N119 billion collected from the federation account and N6.4 billion from ISOPADEC fund.

The former Imo State Governor said, “We challenge the government in Imo, led by Senator Hope Uzodinma to publish the Iheaka report verbatim, so that Imo people in particular and Nigerians in general, could read the report and see how the Panel arrived at N106 billion, which they said that Senator Okorocha should refund.

“No serious panel would have made such recommendation. It could only take a “Ben Johnson” Panel to do that. And let the government publish the list of Contractors who handled contracts under Okorocha, State the Contracts they did, how much they were paid respectively, how they were paid and what they should have been paid, in the estimation of the Panel members.

“Governor Uzodinma should explain what he has done with the N119 billion he has Collected from the federation account and N6.4 billion ISOPADEC fund.     Vis-a-viz the IGR. The governor said he came through “Ben Johnson” way and since January 14, 2020 when he came on board, all his actions and utterances have been “Ben Johnson” way.”

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