The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has asked the government of Benue state to release details of
the state’s security meetings.
Terver Akase, spokesman of Samuel
Ortom, governor of Benue, disclosed this on Wednesday.
Akase said the anti-graft agency
requested details of the meetings between 2015 and 2018.
The governor’s aide wondered if
the EFCC had become a security regulatory agency.
“What does EFCC want to do with
minutes of Benue State security council meetings? Has EFCC moved from fighting
crimes to a security regulating agency?” he asked.
“It has asked for minutes of the
state security council meetings between 2015 and 2018. What does EFCC want from
Benue state?”
Shortly after Ortom defected from
the All Progressives Congress (APC) to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in July,
the EFCC said it was probing him for an alleged diversion of N22 billion meant
for security.
The commission alleged that less
than N3 billion of the amount was spent on security agencies working to curb
the farmers-herders crisis that has bedevilled the state.
Thereafter, accounts belonging to
the state government was frozen by the EFCC but the restrictions were lifted on
August 9.
Akase had said that Ortom was
being witch-hunted for leaving the APC.
Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC’s
spokesman, is yet to respond inquiries on the development as he neither
responded to calls or text message.
Witch-hunting. Simple.
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