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Imo State Owing Me ₦8bn Security Votes – Okorocha

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3 years ago

Feb 1, 2022.

…he stressed that he should be the one laying claims to the benefits he ‘rejected’ while serving as governor for eight years.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday faulted the series of allegations of corruption against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the state government.

Rather than being prosecuted for corruption, he stressed that he should be the one laying claims to the benefits he ‘rejected’ while serving as governor for eight years.

“How much is Imo State government money?” asked Okorocha who was a guest on Channels Television. “Imo State is really owing me because I never collected my security votes; I am supposed to collect ₦8 billion if I have to make claims for security votes I did not collect.

“I fed myself throughout in the Government House when I was there, I used my personal cars. Those who say I was broke are liars. If you talk about Nigerians blessed by God, I raise my hand to be one of them. I was Rochas before I became governor, in fact, governor made me poorer.

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“I had Rochas Foundation Schools – so many of them, over 18,000 before I became governor; to feed these children and educate them, it doesn’t cost anything less than ₦500 a day. Calculate that and know whether there is any day I wake up that ₦10 million, ₦15 million does not go out of my pocket.”

Okorocha, who presently represents Imo West senatorial district, was slammed with a 17-count charge to the tune of ₦2.9 billion by the EFCC.

The anti-graft agency filed the charges at the Federal High Court in Abuja about the same time the lawmaker was declaring his intention to run for the office of president in 2023.

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