Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has questioned the immediate past Governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke, about his alleged role in the $115m (N23bn) bribe allegedly disbursed by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Imoke was quizzed at the commission’s office in Port Harcourt.
The EFCC had last week arrested the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River, Mr. Ntufam Okon, for allegedly receiving N500m from the Diezani’s fund. The money in question was
alleged to have been used in bribing officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission ahead of the 2015 presidential election.
The commission wrote on its official Facebook page, “Chief Liyel Imoke was on Wednesday quizzed by operatives of the EFCC, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for his alleged involvement in the N500m collected by the Cross Rivers State’s Chairman of the PDP, Mr. Ntufam Okon, from the sleazy $115million, a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke lodged with Fidelity Bank in controversial circumstances during the 2015 electioneering campaign period.
“Imoke arrived at the Port Harcourt’s office of the EFCC, by 10.15am on Wednesday, and is answering questions being posed to him by his investigators.”
The EFCC also arrested a former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Imasuen, and former Secretary to the State Government of Edo, Pastor Osagie Iyamu, for allegedly collecting N700m from the Diezani’s fund.
The commission alleged that the N700m was collected from the Mission Road branch of Fidelity Bank Plc, in Benin- City in March, 2015 and the
money was conveyed in a bullion van.
The statement added, “The N700m was reportedly collected from the Mission Road branch of Fidelity Bank Plc, in Benin- City in March, 2015. Iyamu, a PDP Presidential Campaign Coordinator in the 2015
presidential election, admitted collecting the money from the bank.
“He told EFCC’s interrogators that he went to the bank on …Read More
Source:: Nigerian Pilot
