EFCC arrests Imo commissioner, accountant

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has arrested Imo State Commissioner for Finance, Okafor John, and the Accountant-General, Eche George.

They were being detained as of press time at the commission’s office in Abuja.

They were arrested on Wednesday.

The arrest followed petitions written against them in connection with the over N1bn construction contract awarded to JPROS International Limited.

Former Deputy Governor, Jude Agbaso, was recently impeached over the same contract.

The anti-graft agency had in January quizzed the two over the allegation.

They were later granted administrative bail after producing sureties.

Meanwhile, Peoples Democratic Party in the  South-East, has denied offering anyone N3bn to impeach Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State.

Contrary to media reports, the South-East PDP also said it never contacted  the Imo State House of Assembly Speaker, Mr. Benjamin Uwajumogu, to execute any impeachment plot.

Uwajumogu had alleged that the PDP National Vice Chairman, South-East, Col. Austin Akobundu (retd.), alongside other persons, offered him N3bn to facilitate the impeachment of Okorocha.

However, the party  on Thursday said the allegation was “infantile, irresponsible and disingenuous.”

A statement by Osita Igbe, Special Adviser to the South-East PDP National Vice Chairman, read, “It fits into an emerging picture of politics in Imo State since April 2011, which is based on dishonourable propaganda and flagrant disregard for the truth.

“Assuming that such a plot even existed, there is no chance that Col. Akobundu, a former military officer, who knows the value of loyalty, would entrust it to a political turncoat like Uwajumogu.”




-- Punch