The EFCC has arrested the Accountant-General of Imo State, for allegedly conniving with Gov. Rochas Okorocha to steal a whooping 1.05bn for the governorship and house of assembly elections.
Casmir was arrested for purportedly helping the State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to divert N1.05bn for the governorship and Assembly decisions.
This information was a part of an EFCC situation report made accessible to journalists.
The EFCC report stated, “The, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office, Thursday, March 8, 2019 nabbed the Acting Accountant General of Imo State, Mr.
Uzoho Casmir, on suspicions of laundering the aggregate of N1.050bn through a new age bank for the Governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha.
“Uzoho’s was a direct result of intelligence received that the governor planned to utilize the cash for vote purchasing for his choice candidate in tomorrow’s gubernatorial elections. Investigations further uncovered that Mr Casmir withdrew the sum in three tranches between Tuesday and Thursday this week in the accompanying request; N200m on Tuesday, N500m on Wednesday and N350m on Thursday.
“In the mean time, the EFCC has frozen linked and connected accounts, while the detained Accountant General has been giving valuable data to the commission. Mr Casmir was before his appointmentt, a Director of Finance in Okorocha’s administration and was in 2016 implicated in N2bn bailout support scam, which was then given to the state by the Federal Government for the installment of compensation overdue debts of government employees.”
