Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has broken into the residence of Senator Rochas Okorocha in Abuja after gunshots were heard in the vicinity, Kossyderrickent has learned.
It is not yet clear if anyone was injured from the shots. The EFCC insisted that journalists must leave the premises, forcefully ejecting everyone in the residence.
A Channels Television cameraman, Kabiru Owoyemi, was among those brutalised during the clearance. He was hit with a gun on the neck.
‘Left with no option’
The EFCC had arrived Okorocha’s residence in Maitama to effect his arrest on Tuesday.
According to the agency, Okorocha had refused to “honour
invitations after jumping the administrative bail earlier granted him by the Commission.”
But Okorocha, who is running for President under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, accused the agency of holding him hostage in his own home.
Speaking exclusively to Channels Television, he also asked the EFCC to produce an arrest warrant.
The EFCC had on January 24, 2022 filed a 17-count criminal charge bordering on diversion of public funds and properties to the tune of N2.9billion against Okorocha.
The case was assigned to Honourable Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja but attempts to arraign Senator Okorocha were twice stalled owing to the absence of the ex-governor who evaded service of processes.
At the last adjourned date, March 28th, 2022, Justice Ekwo before adjourning until May 30th, 2022, had warned that it was “the last adjournment I shall grant in this matter”.
According to the EFCC, it was “left with no option than to effect the arrest of Senator Okorocha and bring him to trial.”
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has explained why it’s operatives arrested presidential aspirant and ex-governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022.
Okorocha was arrested after hours of siege at his Maitama residence in Abuja.
Speaking in a statement, the commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said Okorocha had jumped an administrative bail and resisted being served court papers for his corr#ption trial.
According to him, “EFCC had on January 24, 2022 filed a 17-count cri#inal charge bordering on diversion of public funds and properties to the tune of N2.9billion against Okorocha.
The case was assigned to Honourable Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja but attempts to arraign Senator Okorocha were twice stalled owing to the absence of the ex-governor who evaded service of processes
At the last adjourned date, March 28th, 2022, Justice Ekwo before adjourning until May 30th, 2022, had warned that it was “the last adjournment I shall grant in this matter.”
In the circumstances, the Commission is left with no option than to effect the arrest of Senator Okorocha and bring him to trial.”
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