EFCC Press Release
Operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 quizzed a former governor of
Cross Rivers State, Senator Liyel Imoke, for his alleged involvement in
the N500million collected by the Cross Rivers State’s chairman of the
People’s Democratic Party, Mr. Ntufam John Okon.
The N500m was part of the $115m allegedly lodged in
Fidelity Bank Plc, in controversial circumstances, during the 2015 electioneering
campaign period by the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs.
Diezani Allison- Madueke.
Also, a former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Chief
Lucky Imasuen, and a former Secretary to the State Government of Edo State, Pastor
Osagie Ize Iyamu, have been interrogated by operatives of the EFCC for
collecting the sum of N700million( Seven Hundred Million Naira) from the
$115million fraud.
The money was reportedly collected from Fidelity Bank Plc, Mission Road, Benin City branch, on March, 2015.
Iyamu, a People's Democratic Party, PDP's presidential campaign coordinator in the 2015 presidential election, admitted to have
collected the money from the bank.
He told EFCC's interrogators that he went to the
bank on that fateful day with Imasuen and a former House of Representatives member
representing Edo Central, Tony Azeigbemi (who is yet to be arrested by the
EFCC) and the money was handed over to them by an official of the bank.
Both Imasuen and Iyamu signed for the collection of
the money.
Investigations by the EFCC showed that the two
politicians conveyed the money from the bank in a bullion van to the residence
of a top politician in Edo State.
The Commission is on the trail of the politician for
the recovery of the money.
Both Imasuen and Iyamu are still in the EFCC custody
and will be charged to court soon.
Wilson Uwujaren,
Head,
Media & Publicity,
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