The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Tuesday, February 22, arraign former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged complicity in a N2.9billion fraud.
Okorocha who was governor of Imo state from 2011 to 2019, will be docked alongside a chieftain of the All Progressive, APC, Anyim Nyerere Chinenye, and five companies- Naphtali International Limited, Perfect Finish Multi Projects Limited, Consolid Projects Consulting Limited, Pramif International Limited, and Legend World Concepts Limited.
EFCC, in a 17-count charge it entered before the court, alleged that the Defendants, conspired and diverted public funds into private accounts for their personal use.
It alleged that the Defendants sequentially siphoned funds from the Imo State Government House account and Imo State Joint Local Government Project account, and diverted same into accounts of private firms.
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