• Ex-gov denies allegationImmediate past Governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha has been indicted for misappropriating over N6b funds allocated to the state’s Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ISOPADEC). The committee set up to investigate ISOPADEC’s activities from May 2011 to May 2019 disclosed this while presenting its report to Governor Emeka Ihedioha. It said in spite of the huge funds that accrued to the commission, “its wage bill stood at N93.6m as at May 2019. Before they were elected into the House of Representatives, they were Commissioner for Finance and Principal Secretary to the governor respectively. But in a swift response to the development, Okorocha dismissed the allegations, saying they did not make any sense to him.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2020 04:07 UTC