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Okorocha’s Reckless Spending Forced Us To Freeze N5 Billion Belonging To Imo State – EFCC

Tobias Sylvester
By Tobias Sylvester
Published: May 21, 2019
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Okorocha’s Reckless Spending Forced Us To Freeze N5 Billion Belonging To Imo State - EFCC 1

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it was forced to freeze N5 billion belonging to Imo State government because the State governor, Rochas Okorocha, was spending too much money from the state funds during the general elections.

The EFCC’s Zonal Head for South-East, Usman Imam, said this during a chat with journalists on Monday.

According to the agency, their timely intervention saved the state over N5bn that would have been deployed in vote buying by the Okorocha’s administration during the last elections. Imam said:

“About N7.9bn is what had been blocked, although with pressure, subsequently, about N2.5bn was released for salaries. On the whole, we have over N5bn of those funds blocked; we are following up to see what actually happened.

“Honestly, what we discovered was that within two days, N700m was withdrawn in cash; N200m on the first day and N500m on the second day and all these monies were disbursed in a manner that was honestly unpalatable.

“Distribution to school teachers; I don’t know, schools that you were not funding and you woke up on the eve of the election and withdrew N500m cash and start distributing N1000 each or so to teachers. Whatever that means, I don’t know.

“When we came in, we were able to save about seventy something million of the funds that we discovered were not disbursed, we also blocked it. People are still answering questions as to who asked them to move those monies, monies that were blocked at the banks.”

Imam added that the sad story about this was that these monies were the intervention funds; the bailout funds that the Federal Government released to states to pay salaries when they were having problems paying salaries.

“They didn’t utilise that money to pay the salaries; they warehoused it and kept it until the election period, they started attempting to draw down the money. Whatever happens, we have saved over N5bn of that money, as we talk, two weeks to handover. Probably, the next government would have that money to use it better. There are a lot of other general investigations going on in Imo right now.”

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