Alleged vote buying plot: EFCC arrests Imo Accountant-General over strange withdrawal of N1.05bn
The cash was allegedly withdrawn in three tranches between Tuesday and Thursday.The suspect, who was arrested on Thursday, was in custody at press yesterday.
“Casmir’s arrest followed intelligence report that the state government intended to use the money for vote buying in favour of a particular candidate in Saturday’s gubernatorial election.” “We have blocked the traced accounts while the arrested Accountant General has been providing useful information to the Commission,” he said.
Meanwhile, the EFCC, Benin Zonal Office, has arraigned Bishop Ginika Obi James, Kingsåey Ibe Francis, Amaka Janet Okafor, Lokwutor Tina and Praise Ochei, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court Asaba, Delta State, on a six-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence. “One of the count reads: ‘That you Ginika Obi James, Kingsåey Ibe Francis, Amaka Janet Okafor, Lokwutor Tina and Praise Ochei, sometimes in May, 2018, in Agbor within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did with intent to defraud conspired with yourselves to commit an offence to wit: obtain money by false pretences and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section a of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related offences Act and punishable under Section 1 of the same Act.
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