EFCC quick to arrest, slow to examine effectively– Okorocha
Former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has described one of the country’s anti-graft companies, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, as too fast to effect arrests on suspects without thorough investigation.
Okorocha expressed his observation yesterday in Abuja, while formally declaring his intentions to contest for the presidency in 2023.
While fielding questions from press reporters who asked how he wanted to clinch the All Progressive Congress Presidential ticket, when he was not on excellent terms with the incumbent Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, he said, “as we are here talking now, if someone goes to tell EFCC that they saw someone concerning where Okorocha is declaring for President with some ghana should go bags, EFCC will come and pick you up and apprehend you without searching for out if its real or not, then at the end of the day that individual’s character would have been harmed”.
In a turn of events a few hours after Okorocha made the declarations at the International Conference Centre, the EFCC supposedly filed 17-count scams charges against him at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
In the charges, Okorocha is declared to have actually embezzled N2.4 billion in public funds through connivance with some individuals and companies.
On the other hand, Okorocha has actually urged his celebration APC to promote justice and fairness in figuring out where to zone the presidency.
According to him, the country as presently structured was developed on a tripod of three major ethnic citizenships; Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba.
“It would be an oppression for the Yorubas and Hausa’s to come out to look for to object to for President, “he specified at the main statement.
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