EFCC Demand Details Of Security Meetings In Benue State

EFCC Probes Benue State’s Security Spendings

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has demanded that the government of Benue state release details of the state’s security meetings.

Terver Akase, spokesman of Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue state, disclosed this to newsmen today, stating that the anti-graft agency requested details of the meetings between 2015 and 2018.

He said Gov Ortom is being witch-hunted as he wondered if the EFCC had become a security regulatory agency.

“What does EFCC want to do with minutes of Benue State security council meetings? Has EFCC moved from fighting crimes to a security regulating agency?” he asked.

“It has asked for minutes of the state security council meetings between 2015 and 2018. What does EFCC want from Benue state?”

As earlier reported by Naija News, few days after Ortom defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the EFCC started probing him for an alleged diversion of N22 billion supposedly meant for security.

The commission alleged that less than N3 billion of the amount was spent on security agencies working to curb the farmers-herders crisis that has bedeviled the state.

As a result, the state government accounts was frozen by the EFCC but the restrictions were lifted on August 9.