Ebonyi State governor’s son Elechi Nnanna Elechi, is
currently being quizzed by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission.
Sources at the anti- graft agency said that the member of
the Ebony’s first family who arrived the Commission’s head office in Abuja
Thursday morning is being grilled over allegations of money laundering running
into millions of Naira.
He is alleged to be the face of the family’s company that
profited from contracts from the state and local governments running into
millions of naira and which remain unexecuted less than four months to the end
of his father’s tenure.
Last week the anti-graft agency quizzed the Permanent
Secretary of the state Ministry of Works, Cornelius Onwe; while the state’s
Accountant General, Edwin Igbele; Commissioner for Finance, Timothy Ogbonnaya
Odaa; and Commissioner for Local government and Chieftaincy Matters, Cele Nwali
had earlier been being quizzed by operatives of the EFCC, in Abuja, on
allegations of fraud regarding an Asphalt Project earmarked for the 13 local
government of the state, which monies running
into millions of naira was deducted at source, from local government accounts.
The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, could not
be reached to comment for this story. He did not answer or return multiple
calls made to him. He also did not answer a text message sent to him.
Source: PREMIUM TIMES
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