The Imo State Recovery team commissioned by Gov. Emeka Ihedioha to recover Imo State Government allegedly looted properties by the past administration of Gov. Rochas Okorocha have being confronted with a damaging allegation of demanding N500,000.00 bribe from the former House of Representative Member representing Ihitte Uboma/Obowo/Ehime-Mbanno federal constituency, Honourable chike John Okafor.

The former honorable member accused the Recovery team of demanding a sum of N500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) from him, which he disclosed to be one of their reasons of not releasing his private own vehicle which was bought by him in the year 2014.

According to his claims,

Chantel, above are documents of a toyota hilux i bought for personal use since March,2014.As a matter of fact i bought two of them then,& donated one to the Divisional Police Officer,DPO,Obowo LGA.They are still using that vehicle there as we speak .This task force waylaid my driver on the road a couple of weeks ago & took away this particular vehicle,& that was after they had stormed my private residence in Owerri,& looked through the papers of all the vehicles there,& confirmed that none of them belong to IMSG.I had gone to the task force office personally,my wife have been there more than 3 times,my younger brother have been there more times than 3,& Chantel you are aware of this.I have spoken to the SSG,Hon Barr Uche Onyeagocha,& i guess he had spoken to Jasper Ndubuaku.We had shown them the papers,& they took copies,after sighting the originals.I guess the problem is that i refused to “Drop” the 500k they’re demanding.Now i just confirmed that the vehicle has been moved to the Government House by the orders of the Chief Security Officer,CSO to the Governor,whom i understand wants to use the vehicle personally(i hope that information is wrong),I am compelled to shout out here,since it’s obvious you’re the official social media mouthpiece of the Taskforce. Jasper Ndubuaku & Co know the vehicle does not belong to IMSG,& pls tell them that i will not “drop” a kobo to retrieve it,& pls let the CSO know that the vehicle they sent to him does not belong to IMSG.We have watched Governments come & go in this State,now we have 3 former civilian Governors,& by God’s grace they’re all not just alife,these gentlemen are very strong & kicking.I don’t know when,but we’ll have a 4th one Chantel am glad you can confirm seeing my wife & younger brother in your office,at least i mentioned that in my comment up there.This is over 6 weeks now they waylaid my driver along bank road & took away that vehicle,& we had since presented the papers to confirm ownership,& yet they have refused to return same to me.I had refused to go public with this until now am sure they’re not releasing it because i’ve refused to “drop” as demanded,& i WILL NOT do that.I will approach the Commissioner of Police next week with my pertition,& the papers once i return to the State,maybe then you’ll know who asked me for money.This is Imo,& this is our State.Nobody,i mean nobody can use intimidation to covert my asset.Never.