Elechi
Nnanna Elechi, son of Ebonyi State governor, Martin Elechi, is
currently being quizzed by operatives of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission.
Sources at the anti- graft agency confided in
PREMIUM TIMES that the member of the Ebonyi 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.
Mr. Elechi was yet to be released when PREMIUM TIMES checked with EFCC sources at 9 p.m. on Thursday.
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.
They were all fingered in allegations of fraud regarding
an Asphalt Project earmarked for the 13 local government of the state by
the Elechi administration for 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.
Governor
Elechi, a second term governor, will step down on May 29 this year, and
investigators suggest he too might be interrogated and prosecuted after
his tenure.
Governors and their deputies, just like the
President and his vice, are constitutionally immune from trial in
Nigeria until after their tenures.
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