“In the case of the sacked governor, how can one explain that someone who claimed to have been elected to rule an impoverished people will have the heart to be riding in a N187 million car when the poor masses are battling with basic needs of food and ...
, and subsequent reaffirmation of the judgment in which it declared Senator Hope Uzodinma duly elected. But another can of worm capable of further souring relationship between the two men recently came up, with the Uzodinma administration accusing his predecessor of siphoning N19.63 billion from the accounts of the 27 local government areas of the state.
But the car purchase accusation was unfolded while speaking in a current affairs phone in and audience participatory programme of the state-owned Imo Broadcasting Corporation radio last Friday, saying: “The car is equipped like Airforce One of the United States. It has a master bedroom, conference room, bar and other facilities. It is the type of car that only a monarch, an emperor or one with imperial appetite will want to use.
Emelumba’s statement on the said N19.63 billion read in part: “Imo State Government has approved the request of the Auditor General for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs to take all necessary steps to recover the sum of N19.63 billion siphoned from the State-Local Government Joint Accounts Allocation Committee , through the Bureau for Local government and Chieftaincy Affairs , by the sacked government of Emeka Ihedioha, in just seven months in office.
“Some of the agents used by Ihedioha’s government to siphon the billions of naira include the Managing Director of Wall House Ltd., a crony of the sacked governor, who was paid N1.215 billion for supply of construction equipment without any document, which he didn’t supply. There was also an unconscionable mandatory withdrawal of N2.
“The state government is shocked and embarrassed that within just seven months, a government could perpetrate such quantum of fraud by an unconscionable abuse of public trust through the use of public funds for self-serving purposes. Consequently, the government has approved the request of the Auditor-General for Local Government to enforce his recovery order on the Permanent Secretary BLGCA and others indicted as agents used by the Ihedioha government to siphon N19.63 billion.
“2, There was no such thing as unconscionable mandatory withdrawal of N2.405 billion, from who to who, where and when? 3, There was nothing like payment of N9. 378 billion to local government councils for an undisclosed purpose. If such funds were paid into local government councils, that’s a bonus. But who paid that and from where? 4, Anyama and Co received N245 million for no disclosed purpose. I do not know who is Anyama and Co and the Bureau did not pay that under my watch.
Conclusively, Eze said: “I have never in life seen this level of intent to attack and malign others without a single shred of evidence.” But Emelumba dismissed the issue of tutorials, saying that Uzodinma was better equipped with experience, education, capacity, training, exposure than Ihedioha, insisting that it was like comparing orange and apple.
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