Report of the first part of the findings of the Imo State Account
Reconciliation Committee has revealed that a total sum of N62 billion suspected
transactions was perpetrated by the Ikedi Ohakim administration.
But former Governor Ohakim, who
oversaw the affairs of Imo State between May 2007 and May 2011, has denied
being invited, arrested or detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) in connection with alleged N62 billion fraud as alleged by
Governor Rochas Okorocha.
He said Okorocha is talking nonsense.
“Before I left office, I prepared a
300-page hand-over note and an accompanying 22-page summary, which I handed
over to Okorocha,” Ohakim claimed.
Submitting the report to Okorocha
last Monday, the deputy governor and chairman of the committee, Sir Jude
Agbaso, said the committee in its assignment observed irregularities from
government officials, private companies and banks which are considered
recoverable by the state.
According to Ohakim, the hand-over
document contained the 900 water schemes, as well as other projects initiated
and completed by his administration in four years.
“For Okorocha to say that my
administration barely managed to complete two or three projects during my
tenure is a sure proof that he never read, has refused to read, or did not
understand what I put down in the hand-over document,” Ohakim fumed.
He recalled that the long stretch of
Isiekenesi-Osina Road, which was awarded by the Sam Mbakwe administration in
1983 and abandoned by subsequent administrations in the state, was completed by
him.
On the issue of the state’s
Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), Ohakim explained that it was usually
collected by the bank and remitted to the 27 local governments at the turn of
every new month.
The former governor dismissed a
publication by an Owerri-based tabloid that he was arrested as “a figment of
the reporter’s imagination”.
Source: Daily Independent
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