Former Imo State Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has dared the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to expose how the reportedly seized N7.9 billion is linked to his bank account.
In a statement on Thursday by his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha dared EFCC to publish the accounts’ details where the said money was recovered from.
Head of the Port Harcourt zone of the anti-graft agency, Usman Imam, had said at a press conference on Thursday that he recovered N7.9 billion from Okorocha and that over N5 billion had been returned to successive administrations.
Mr Imam also revealed that the former governor would be arraigned after investigations are concluded.
“The EFCC as a commission or Mr Usman Imam as a person and Head of Enugu zone then, and today, that of Port Harcourt Zone, of the commission, never recovered N7.9 billion or any other amount of money, from Rochas Okorocha,” the statement by the Imo West Senator’s aide read.
“With this denial, we, therefore, 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 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.”