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Okorocha runs to Buhari, says EFCC harassing, intimidating him

Former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, on Thursday rushed to the State House, Abuja to seek President Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention over his ordeal with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Okorocha, who allegedly accused the EFCC of “unjust harassment”, claimed that he had secured court judgement and two court orders at different forums, which stop the EFCC from harassing and intimidating him.

Okorocha is being charged by the EFCC with allegations that he conspired with others, including an APC politician and five companies, to steal N2.9 billion from public coffers when he was governor of Imo.

However, the former governor accused some people he described as cowards of being behind his ordeal with the EFCC.

Okorocha also told the correspondents that he formally apprised the president on his decision to vie for the 2023 presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming 2023 general election.

He said: “I used this opportunity to intimate Mr President of what is going on between me and EFCC; the harassment and intimidation that I’m getting from the EFCC, literally on a daily basis.

“I informed him that I have court judgement and two court orders from different judgements at different forums, which stop the EFCC from harassing and intimidating me. EFCC has refused to obey the law.

“And so I have to inform Mr. President that EFCC should be made to obey the law that established it. And without the law there wouldn’t be an EFCC. And the desperation with which they go about any affair that concerns me, should stop.

“The court ordered the EFCC to release my international passport, the EFCC has refused to obey.

“The court gave damages to me for some N500 million for EFCC to pay. EFCC has not paid that.

“Rather than doing that, on the day of my declaration, EFCC went on the press to announce that I’m being prosecuted for some criminal charges of N2.9 billion and no more N5.9 billion.”

Asked if reporting the EFCC to the President was to stop the corruption allegation against him, he said that he had not requested the president to stop him from being investigated but to get the anti-graft agency to obey the law.

“I didn’t come here to say, I don’t want to be investigated by the EFCC. That’s not the issue, but that there’s judgement on the ground.”

TheStar

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