{"id":2373,"date":"2013-04-19T06:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T06:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/efcc-arrests-imo-finance-commissioner-accountant-general\/"},"modified":"2013-04-19T06:42:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T06:42:17","slug":"efcc-arrests-imo-finance-commissioner-accountant-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/efcc-arrests-imo-finance-commissioner-accountant-general\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Arrests Imo Finance Commissioner, Accountant General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two top officials of the Imo State Government.<\/p>\n<p>They are the Commissioner of Finance, Deacon Okafor Chike John and the Accountant General of the state, Eche Ezenna George.<\/p>\n<p>They were picked up Wednesday and are currently being questioned at the Commission\u2019s office in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested following petitions in respect of the over N1 billion construction contract awarded JPROS International Limited for which the former deputy governor, Jude Agbaso was recently impeached.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation has revealed that due process was not followed and the contract value was paid to the contractor even before the commencement of work<\/p>\n<p>Sources at the Commission disclosed that more personalities involved in the scam are being invited for questioning as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the Commission confirmed the arrest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\"> <\/img> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PmNewsNigeria?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PmNewsNigeria?i=caAJIfEroy4:ujkcYlbl8E0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img> <img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PmNewsNigeria?i=caAJIfEroy4:ujkcYlbl8E0:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img> <\/div>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/> Posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeria-news.disnaija.com\/\">Nigeria News. <\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\">DisNaija.Com<\/a> network.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  PM News<\/p>\n<p><b>DisNaija.Com<\/b> publishes regular posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeria-news.disnaija.com\/\">Nigeria News,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nigerian-newspapers.disnaija.com\/\">Nigerian Newspapers,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/online-nigeria.disnaija.com\/\">Online Nigeria Gist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"true\" data-size=\"large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Dis_Naija<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Your Opinion Counts. Be sure To Leave A Comment, If You Have Any.<\/p>\n<p>Please <b>Like, Share<\/b> or <b>Tweet<\/b>. Your Support Is Appreciated.<br \/>\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/thank-you.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two top officials of the Imo State Government. They are the Commissioner of Finance, Deacon Okafor Chike John and the Accountant General of the state, Eche Ezenna George. They were picked up Wednesday and are currently being questioned at the Commission\u2019s office in Abuja. They were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[2525,2023,476,209,3388,1272],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}