The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] has sealed some properties belonging to the immediate past governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha and his family members.

The affected properties, marked with bold inscription “Under Investigation Keep Off By EFCC” on the gates, include the Rochas Foundation School, the East High College and others.

The anti-graft agency is yet to give reasons for the action taken on Tuesday night but the current state government led by Hon. Emeka Ihedioha is accusing the former governor of converting government property to personal use.

Governor Ihedioha, recently, established a Commission to investigate and recover any government property stolen by Okorocha and/or his family members.

Reacting, the former governor has decried witch-hunt by the PDP-led State government in collaboration with the EFCC.

In a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha said that “on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, as at about 6am, Agents of the Economic & Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, from its Office in Enugu with Hilux buses loaded with armed military and mobile Policemen stormed the Rochas Foundation College Owerri, with more than three thousand students, and most of them, orphans, and sealed the College.

“The Commission also sealed the East High College and Academy, Owerri with Uloma Rochas Nwosu as the proprietor, among other investments belonging to the former governor and family which the Commission Sealed.

“The action of EFCC with the presence of heavily Armed Military and Police Mobile Personnel frightened the students and most of them began to cry. It was a sympathetic scenario.

“What is obvious is that the PDP government in the State with Chief Emeka Ihedioha as governor and all the PDP Chieftains who felt politically displaced from 2011 to 2019 by Rochas Okorocha had come together to launch war against Rochas and his family. And APC members.

“And that was why they needed INEC to declare their Candidate winner even when he didn’t meet the requirement. Unfortunately, they have instigated certain agencies like EFCC into taking some hasty actions following flood of petitions by them.

“Our concern about the action of the EFCC is the approach. There was no prior invitation to the Managements or Proprietors of the Colleges and other establishments sealed by the Commission as expected before such action.

“To the best of our knowledge too, these Colleges have not been under the investigation of the Commission.

“We have had the feeling that the Sealing of the Colleges or any other structure as the case maybe, would have been based on the outcome of their investigation in which the managements or the proprietors would have also been interrogated,” the statement noted.

Source: Elombanews