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April 28, 2006
Plateau finance commissioner denies EFCC charges
PLATEAU state finance commissioner, Mr. Emmanuel Agati who was arrested by the London Metropolitan police in connection with money laundering in September 2003, has denied all charges of financial crimes levelled against him and Governor Dariye by the EFCC.
From CHRISTIANA GOKYO, Jos
Mr. Agati who was arrested along with Governor Joshua Dariye, made the denial yesterday while being cross-examined by the probe committee, set up by the Plateau state House of Assembly to investigate charges of financial crimes, case of conspiracy, abuse of office, official corruption and money laundering.
The embattled commissioner alleged that the EFCC had forged some documents including names of dead persons.
He also denied that some of the names included in the EFCC documents were not employees of the state government, arguing that they have no connection with the state government whatsoever.
Mr. Agati further added that there was no authentication of cheques of the banks alleged to have conducted the transactions to ascertain its genuity.
He also named that at no time the state government siphoned money from the state coffers into his private account.
According to him, the alleged N1.1 billion ecological funds is still lodged in the state government account which is still being used for that purpose.
He further submitted that at no time did he approve the sum of N160 billion state money for the private use of the government.
Posted by Publisher at April 28, 2006 01:14 PM
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