Delta State Accountant General, Former Directors of Finance, Admin In EFCC Net Over Okowa's Alleged Diversion of N1.3trillion
OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested the Accountant General of Delta State, Mrs. Joy Enwa, former director of finance and administration (DFA) and the director of administration, Government House, over alleged diversion of N1.3 trillion state funds by former former governor, Ifeanyi Okowa.
The EFCC had in November, last month, arrested and detained former governor Okowa for the alleged diversion of the funds. The money is said to be part of the 13 percent derivation fund earmarked for oil-rich states.
The EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale who had confirmed the arrest and detention, stated that the former Delta governor and former Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was taken into custody at the Port Harcourt division of the anti-graft office.
Okowa was alleged to have used his office as governor to loot and acquire assets up to N1.3 trillion. Some of the assets were shares in UTM Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Company, among other investments in the oil sector.
Following the ongoing investigation of the former governor, the EFCC operatives last week arrested and detained the Accountant General of Delta State, Mrs. Joy Enwa for questioning.
Others arrested include one Ekeruche, former director of finance and administration (DFA) and the director of administration, Government House and have made separate useful statements.
In 2015, the former Delta State Accountant General Cyril Agbele, his then deputy, Mrs. Joy Enwa, now current Accountant General, former Asaba branch manager of the First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mabel Asaije, and a staff member of the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, simply identified as "Prosper" were allegedly enmeshed in a N369 million fraud and arrested by operatives of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Asaba.
In April 2020, Okowa appointed Enwa as the new Accountant General of the state, taking over from Agbele.
