EXCLUSIVE: How EFCC Detained Godswill Akpabio For Two Hours After Attempting To Bribe Agency Chairman With $350,000
Akpabio was trying to bribe the EFCC Chairman because of the tons of corruption allegations against him, dating back to the time he was governor of Akwa Ibom State.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 23, 2021
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission detained the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio after he attempted to bribe the Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Abdulrasheed Bawa, SaharaReporters has learnt.
Sources told SaharaReporters on Friday that Akpabio and five others with him, said to be his aides, were detained for two hours last Monday, April 12 by the EFCC after the minister attempted to bribe Bawa with $350,000 (about N135 million).
Group known as the Niger Delta Renaissance Coalition, has said that the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, should not stop board inauguration.
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio PHOTO:Twitter
The Niger Delta Minister Chief Godswill Akpabio recently hinted that the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, which he had earlier said would be concluded and the report submitted before April (this month) will now be concluded in July, following which the Governing Board will be put in place. We consider this an insult to good governance and the Niger Delta people, that an external audit is not only taking place for over a year and a half now but that a development agency for the region is being run haphazardly, without a Governing Board as provided for in its Establishment Act, at the whims and caprices of Akpabio.
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