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| Ibrahim Lamorde |
The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission has released top officials of the Imo State
Government held over an alleged fraud-related offence.
The officials, who were
detained at the Tunde Idiagbon House of the EFCC at Wuse Zone 11, are
the Commissioner for Finance, Okafor John, and the Accountant General of
the state, Eche George.
Reprieve came the way of the detainees when the EFCC agreed to grant them administrative bail by 5 pm on Friday.
The EFCC released the two top government officials to credible sureties.
The sureties are a
deputy director in the Federal Capital Territory, a director from the
Imo State Liaison Office, Abuja and the Liaison Officer for the state in
Abuja.
However, the two
officials rebuffed all entreaties to speak to our correspondent who met
them just outside the cell where they were released from.
On sighting the
correspondent with a cameraman from another media house, one of them
said, “Look, we should know what we are going into. Are these people
truly journalists? This is because whatever they do would be in the
interest of the commission.”
They ignored questions
from our reporter, saying, “We don’t talk to the press; it is not every
time you speak to the press. Which one is even your media? And what did
you write before?”
They kept mum as they
walked out of the EFCC premises and were led to Adetokunbo Street by a
waiting delegation, obviously from Imo.
The two government officials were with a third person whose identity was not known to our correspondent.
Investigations showed
that the EFCC arrested the two government officials in relation with a
N47bn transaction between Imo State and a new generation bank.
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