Yar’Adua Seeks Details Over

Our Correspondent

• EFCC asks for documents

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has requested the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to
furnish him with more information over the circumstances that led to the arrest of Governor Ikedia Ohakim of Imo State by the Scotland Yard operatives last week.

The governor was allegedly quizzed by a team of police officers in London, on Monday, March 17, over issues relating to money laundering.

Acting on security report from EFCC, the security operatives were said to have invaded Inter-Continental Hotel, Park Lane, Central London, in search of a huge amount of money, which he allegedly took to London through some of his political aides.

LEADERSHIP gathered that vital documents which suggest that Governor Ohakim has a house worth £1.8 million in South Kensington, London, and another in Atlanta, USA, at the cost of $2.1 million were allegedly recovered in his hotel room.

Our source said, "A huge amount of cash, running into millions of dollars," was also recovered from persons linked to the governor.

The governor and one of his aides were allegedly arrested and asked to make written statements before they were released by the security officials.

LEADERSHIP gathered last night that President Yar’Adua, in line with his anti-corruption crusade, had asked for more detailed information relating to the case.

"The attention of the presidency has been drawn to the case, and he had directed the commission to do its work," a source at EFCC corporate headquarters told our correspondent last night.

"You know, the president has the principle of not interfering in our activities, although he has indicated interest to know more about the case, he however directed the commission to do its work."

Chief DSP Alameyeseigha and Mr. Joshua Dariye, former governors of Bayelsa and Plateau States respectively, had been arrested and prosecuted for similar offences.

An anti-graft source told our reporter that the money and other documents allegedly recovered in Mr. Ohakim’s hotel room are still in the possession of the London security operatives, pending when the investigation into the matter is concluded.

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'Landers, what do you make of this?

He will soon be rightly impeached.
He has proven to be an idiot since when he allowed his aides beat up a woman in front of her kids for not making way for his "almighty" F1 convoy.

Wait a minute; this might just be another selective justice like OBJ's time. Is Yaradua not aware that all the serving govs are doing the same thing? Or is it because the UK blew this one in public?

This may even be another "the more u look the less u see".
Yaradua and EFCC have done nothing to punish the ex-governors with no immunity clause. Now they are talking about a sitting governor with immunity clause.

Yaradua is a joke.