ALLEGED N2.9B FRAUD: Why I Reported EFCC To Buhari- Rochas Okorocha Speaks | DETAILS

The Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Senator Rochas Okorocha has reported the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Okorocha met the President on Thursday, after the anti graft agency had on February 1, 2022, filed a N2.9 billion fraud charge against him, few hours after he declared intention to run for 2023 presidential position.

Speaking to newsmen after meeting the president, Okorocha said;

“I intimated Mr President on what is going on between me and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the harassment and intimidation that I’m getting from the EFCC, literally on a daily basis. And to inform him that I have court judgment and two court orders for different judgments, which stops the EFCC from harassing and intimidating me. EFCC has refused to obey the law.

“So I have to come to inform Mr President that EFCC should be made to obey the law that established it. And without the law, there wouldn’t be an EFCC. And the desperation with which they go about any affair that concerns me should stop.

The EFCC claimed that they recovered the sum of N5.9bn from my account, which the court found to be untrue. In other words, they were biased, and they prejudged me. On that basis, the court ruled and ordered that they should not interrogate and harass me further. This has also not been obeyed.”

Okorocha claimed that the EFCC grilling him, was politically motivated;

“Why I say it is politically motivated is that some people are instigating the EFCC to do this, which is wrong. But as to who particularly, the person must be such a coward who doesn’t want to expose himself.

“And there are people like that who wouldn’t want to expose themselves but stay under doing all kinds of things. I call them coward because they can’t stand up to what they believe in.

 

“My suspicion at this point is immaterial. What is more important is that the EFCC should obey a simple court judgment and court order.”

He added that; “the President said he would take up the matter, especially when he saw the judgment. He said we’ll take up the matter and find out what is actually happening. And I hope he will do so. And I believe he will do that.”