Benue
Governor, Samuel Ortom, says the the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has subjected state government officials to intense
grilling, saying that the persecution was becoming “ridiculous”.
Ortom’s
Chief Press Secretary, Mr Terver Akase, who raised the alarm on
Wednesday in Makurdi, said “no day passes without the commission adding
one more angle to their harassment of Benue officials.
“Their latest move is the demand for minutes of the Benue State Security Council meetings.”
Querying
the legality of their request, Akase asked “does the statutory mandate
of the commission include regulation of states’ security affairs?”
The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the state
legislators were currently answering questions at the EFCC over their
involvement in a car purchase deal since the beginning of the incumbent
administration.
Ortom
had also raised alarm that the anti-graft agency was probing his
security spendings and demanded that it should cover all governors and
the presidency.
Source:https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/efcc-grilling-us-too-much-says-ortom-266094.html
Source:https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/efcc-grilling-us-too-much-says-ortom-266094.html
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