The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied reports in the social media purporting that the Commission recently stormed the basement of the Ikeja, Lagos residence of Senator Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun State, where cash in local and foreign currencies are said to have been stashed in a vault. An EFCC statement said that the report, quoting ghost sources in the Commission further alleged that the Commission had been on the trail of the governor for two weeks before the purported raid.
“It is important to state that there is no truth in the report. Governor Amosun was neither under surveillance nor was any of his residence raided by operatives of the EFCC,” the statement stressed, while urging members of the public to disregard the false report.
In another development, the EFCC, on Tuesday October 17, 2017, stormed the Federal Pay Office in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital and effected the arrest of the Federal Pay Officer, Mr. Shiftanure E. John, for abuse of office and failure to remit N1.8 million (One million, eight hundred thousand naira) to the Board of Internal Revenue Service, BIRS in Akwa Ibom state.
Preliminary investigation revealed entries in the agency’s cashbook which showed evidence of payments made to the Federal Pay Office FPO, but were not reflected in the banks reconciliation statement because they were not remitted to the appropriate bodies and banks/sub-treasury by the Federal Pay Officer, as stipulated in the financial regulations.
Others also being interrogated for their alleged involvement in the diversion of the said sum include the Deputy Pay Officer, Mrs. Obot A. Lucy, and the Cashier, Mrs. Ekanem Imabong.
The case will be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.
