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N2b bailout: Okorocha denies avoiding EFCC

TVC E, POLITICS – Imo State governor, Governor Rochas Okoro­cha has refuted an online report that he had fled Nigeria because of investiga­tions by the Economic and Fi­nancial Commission (EFCC) into how he spent N2billion bail out funds for the state.
Briefing journalists at the Government House, Owerri as early as 8am today, Okorocha de­scribed the report as blackmail because he didn’t “jet out” to anywhere.
He said the journalist who wrote the story hails from the same place as the governorship candidate of the opposition Peo­ples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election and has always written negative things about him and the government of the state.
“If I am with you journalists here this morning, when some­one wrote and published yester­day that I had jetted out because of EFCC, you can imagine the level of falsehood or mischief.
“I won’t take any legal action against the Thisday Newspaper, but I only need a retraction be­cause the story was not true. The newspaper was deceived by the reporter.
“For a long time, I have not travelled out of the country. So the report was mischievous. The PDP has persisted on im­pugning on the image of the government. I call on them to leave such acts as this is the time to face governance and development.”
Meanwhile, the governor remarked that, “the EFCC querying the alleged di­version of N2billion is not out of place as the Commission has visited the state more than fifty times over the past four years and the state has always come out clean. For every report or petition or allegation made to EFCC, it is binding on them to investigate it whether founded or unfounded. That does not mean that the allegation is true.”
He continued, “Every worker in the state was paid beyond the bailout fund and period. The state used the bail­out fund judiciously. The re­cords are clear and accessible. There is nothing like diversion as alleged. You know the PDP elements are good in writing petitions. They have no other business at the moment than to write petitions”, Okorocha said.
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