Former Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized a school
belonging to Unoma Akpabio, the wife of the immediate past governor of
Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio as part of investigations into the
former governor accused of alleged stealing N108bn during his tenure
from 2007 to 2015.
According to a report by Punch, the school identified as St. John
Paul II School, in Shelter Afrique, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State has been marked
as “under investigation by EFCC.”
However, because of the innocent students and parents who paid
school fees being affecte, the EFCC resorted not to shut down the
school. A police van has been stationed outside the school gate.
According to him, the school is serene with normal academic
activities taking place. The spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson
Uwujaren, could not be reached on the telephone on Wednesday. However, a
senior operative at the commission confirmed that the school had been
seized.
“I understand our operatives were recently in Akwa Ibom and did mark a school as ‘under investigation,’” he said.
The PUNCH
had exclusively reported in August 2016 that the EFCC is intensifying
investigation into the former governor and was planning to seize his
properties and freeze accounts linked to him.
The EFCC had written five banks demanding information on Akwa Ibom State finances under Akpabio’s administration.
The commission also invited key members of the Akwa Ibom State
House of Assembly and serving commissioners many of whom served during
the ex-governor’s administration.
A source at the EFCC said, “We have written to Zenith Bank,
Keystone Bank, FCMB, Skye Bank, and UBA demanding information on the
state’s accounts. We are also inviting the accountant-general, the
auditor-general, the Speaker and the clerk of the House of Assembly.
“We have traced some houses to the former governor in Lagos and Abuja and it is just a matter of time before we seize them.”
The EFCC had started looking into Akpabio last year when he was
first quizzed by detectives following a series of petitions written
against him.
Akpabio, who is now the Senate Minority Leader, was accused of
embezzling public funds while he was governor of the oil-rich state.
He was accused of lavish spending such that on March 2013, he
openly gave N1m each to the six chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party
from the South-South geopolitical zone who had converged on Port
Harcourt for a party reconciliation session and told them to use the
money to ‘buy Mr. Biggs’
As the commission was investigating the ex-governor, the Akwa Ibom
State Government, headed to a state High Court to get an interim order
barring the EFCC from investigating his administration.
The Justice Ntong Ntong-led court on July 15, 2016, granted an
interim injunction, restraining the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Commission; and the
Inspector-General of Police from investigating the finances of the Akwa
Ibom State Government.
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