The Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has blasted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for its failure to arrest and prosecute his predecessor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, over the alleged misappropriation of the state’s funds when he was in power.
Okorocha, who spoke at the Citizens Forum organised by the Good Governance Tour Team, led by the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, in Owerri, the state capital, said it was unfortunate that persons with clear cases of corruption walk the streets of the country freely while innocent Nigerians are constantly molested by the EFCC.
He said: “I am begging to get convinced that there is no iota of truth in the allegation considering that for the four years the previous governor governed has nothing on ground as evidence to show proper utilisation of N10 billion or N20 billion in the state.
“It is a shame that outside the uncompleted Ahiajioku building, Governor’s Office, Governor’s Lodge in Abuja and IROMA equipment, which all the caterpillars are refurbished, there is nothing on earth to justify about N450 billion received by that administration and I stand to be corrected.
“If this nation and EFCC cannot fight that corruption by arresting Ohakim, they have lost the credibility of talking about corruption in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Let no Nigerian again be investigated or arrested for corruption if some whose cases are evidently clear are left to walk freely in the country.
“So, the issue of N62 billion is for the anti-graft agencies to investigate.”
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