The President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces,
Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Abuja.
Dear Sir,
We humbly request your urgent order for thorough investigation and possible prosecution of the Chairman of the Independence Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, for suspected compromise on the series of petition we presented to him for over one year now.
The petitions border on the serial corrupt activities of some officials of the former administration of Sullivan Chime in Enugu State.
Our decision to approach you sir, is borne out our suspicion that the affected persons have approached the Commission for cover-up.
For instance, the principal suspect in all the petitions, Ifeoma Nwobodo, a.k.a Chief of Crime, is still unrepentantly moving around in a long convoy of cars and openly threatening to deal decisively with all the petitioners having bribed her way through the agency. We are now in self exile for our dear lives.
Her overbearing influence has grown to the point of being now tipped for the position of the Accountant General of Enugu State. Her indispensable choice is due to a planned need to have her very close to the seat of power to enable her regularize some of the shady deals they perfected while in office so that the signatures will be consistent. This has been largely confirmed by the continued stay in office even after the regime of their boss, of almost all the kitchen cabinet members of Chime.
Several other culprits mentioned in the said petitions are now occupying strategic positions in the present administration. For example, Uche Nwobodo is now re-appointed in his former position of Special Adviser to the Governor on Project Development and Implementation. It was in this capacity that he and Ifeoma Nwobodo through “Direct Labour” criminally short-changed the State to the tune of billions as contained in our petitions.
Again, Corneluis Nnaji who still partook in the “Direct Labour” scandal and also who used his position as ALGON boss to hoodwink his colleagues into deploying local government funds to execute Ifeoma Nwobodo’s political campaigns is today the alternate Chairman of Enugu State Local Government Reform Committee just to take advantage of the opportunity to straighten records.
Because of their criminal activities local government system is in comatose today in Enugu State. It has been a season of protests for non-payments of salaries.
For the avoidance doubt sir, please find attached our series of petitions which the Chairman of ICPC considered frivolous to be investigated. We have absolutely lost confidence in moral competence to function as the head of an anti-corrupt outfit given his deliberate refusal to dispassionately discharge his constitutional roles.
They were all received at the Commission on the dates on them for guidance sir.
We therefore request that the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption recently inaugurated be made to review these sensitive matters that combined to put Enugu State in a very tight economic corner.
Thank you.
Comrade Fred Idoko
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See petition below-
Social Advocacy Initiative of Ndi Enugwu World Assembly
August 27, 2014.
The Chairman,
Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission, ICPC,
Abuja.
Dear Sir,
ALLEGED GENERAL ABUSE OF OFFICE AND CONTRACT IRREGULARITIES RANGING FROM CRIMINAL INFLATION OF FIGURES, PATRONAGE OF FAKE CONTRACTORS TO CONTRAVENTION OF THE PROCUREMENT ACT, COMMITTED BY IFEOMA NWOBODO, GOVERNOR SULLIVAN CHIME’S CHIEF OF STAFF AND OTHERS: CALL FOR I.C.P.C INVESTIGATION
As an organization we are committed to patriotic promotion and defence of justice and transparency in the society particularly good governance in Enugu State.
And therefore aware that the legal mandate of ICPC is basically to prohibit and proscribe punishment for corrupt practices and other related offences and especially being guided by its vision and mission statements as well as antecedence, we are constrained to formally request the prompt independent intervention of the agency for thorough and holistic investigation of the above subject given the unabated public interests and outcries that have continued to trail this matter.
Again we humbly wish to inform you that in line with our objectives we have since brought this sensitive subject to the kind attention of His Excellency, Mr. President, relying on the enabling Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Independent Corrupt Practices and allied offences Commission, ICPC, Nigerian Police Force and Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, Acts respectively. This is for timely and dispassionate intervention.
Also we are particularly compelled to make this patriotic request following a media declaration by one Willy Ezeugwu that EFCC and the Police have since investigated this matter and made their findings known to the parties involved. Please find attached photocopy of This Day Newspaper page 9 of July 18, 2014.
However there were recent series of newspaper publications to the effect that one Chief (Mrs) Ethel Nebo-Abasili wrote a petition dated February 13, 2013 to the Inspector-General of Police entitled “Save my Soul: Threat to My Life, Harassment and Intimidation by Mrs. Ifeoma Nwobodo, Chief of Staff to the Governor of Enugu State” in-which she clearly made the above allegations against Ifeoma Nwobodo and many others. Even though that very edition of the newspaper was not read in Enugu as they were hijacked in transit and destroyed by the agents of government as directed and supervised by Ifeoma Nwobodo as it has now become a practice in Enugu, it can still be read online via justice at last for ousted enugu ubeb chairman using any internet search engine in addition to the attached photocopy of This Day Newspaper page 46 of June 28, 2014.
According to the publication, Chief (Mrs) Ethel Nebo-Abasili alleged that the crux of the onslaught against her by Mrs. Nwobodo was her “principled stand against irregularities in award of contract.”
(Quoting directly from the petition) “When I assumed office in 2009, I accessed the funds in respect of the matching grant for year 2006. In accordance with ENSUBEB laws, I constituted the tenders Board but it was not allowed to function
because I got a letter from the then Commissioner for Education informing me
that a committee for the award of contracts had been set up by the Executive
Council. See App. (1).
I was a member of that committee and it was headed by
the former secretary to the State Government Mr. Martin Ilo. The
Committee decided on the sharing formula for year 2006: see App (2) .This method of sharing contracts and projects clearly
shows that contracts are awarded to INDIVIDIDULS AND NOT TO CONTRACTORS. At the end of the exercise the list including lot numbers, names of sponsors and companies were submitted to Government. See App. 1 (a &.b)
For years 2007 and 2008, the matching grant was accessed once and the same pattern of sharing was used but the number of people and groups INCREASED BECAUSE THE PROJETS COVERED TWO YEARS. The same formula
was used as follows (a) Governor’s office represented by chief of Staff
Ifeoma Nwobodo, (b) Governor’s Aides, ( c) Governor’s family, (d) Governor’s immediate Constituency represented by Mr. Marcus Agu former special Adviser to the Government on Due Process now Special Adviser on Education, (e) Her Excellency’s family represented by her brother Tony Igwe and her sister Ngozi, (f) Her Excellency’s Office/NGO (CHIME) i.e wives of Commissioners, (g) Commissioners and Special Advisers, (h) Chairmen of Boards and Parastatals, (i) People Democratic Party (PDP) i.e. all elected officers of the PDP at the state Level and all elected to PDP Local Government Chairman, ( j) Enugu State
House of Assembly, (k) Traditional Rulers and Religious Organizations, (l) Whatever remained was left for SUBEB and UBEC and was minimal”.
“As soon as my Board set the machinery in motion, for carrying out his Excellency’s directives, the Chief of staff Ifeoma Nwobodo invited me to her office on January 3th 2012 and told me that his Excellency directed that the abandoned projects would be handled mainly by party (Peoples’ Democratic Party) stakeholders who had complained about not enjoying sufficient democracy dividends. She told me that the project would be executed by Direct Labor and that the money in respect of the project would be withdrawn and put in a special account. Her suggestion was not surprising to me because most projects in Enugu State (Not ENSUBEB) are done by Direct Labor.
“I was skeptical about withdrawing the money in bulk and opening a separate account for it, as this could be misconstrued as an attempt to defraud the board. I told her that it would be better to leave the money in the bank where it was officially lodged and the contractors could be paid from there. We also agreed that since it was just a case of abandoned projects, and since this job had earlier been advertised before the Awards of Contracts in the first place, an internal advert would do. On the issue of stakeholders to be given
the contracts, she said she would send them to me and I should ascertain from
their companies as they came. She later sent me a typed list of the companies
of stakeholders, which I used to ascertain the actual owners of the companies.”
“As soon the Action Plan was approved, the Commissioner for Education in a letter Ref ENS/MOE/COM/253/11/227 dated 10th July, 2012 informed me that a committee had been set up for Award of ENSUBEB Contracts. He listed the names
as follows: Barrister Nduka Ikeyi –Chairman, Permanent Secretary Due Process Government House — Secretary, Mr. Abel Nwobodo Jnr (Special Adviser on projects) — Member, Mr. Sylvester Nwoye, Deputy Director P.R.S ENSUBEB — Member, Director P.R.S Ministry of Education — Member. I was completely excluded from the contract Award in my Board. The Commissioner for Education directed me to send letters to them in this regard; I complied with the directives. See App. (9) 27) 22).
Sir it is pertinent to inform you that ENSUBEB has a competent Director of P.R.S qualified to lead the P.R.S department and to handle the project department because of his qualification and experience, His name is Mr. Chris Ugwu. Four days before the constitution of the
committee on the Award of the contracts, he was removed from the Board. In
order to achieve some selfish ends, he was hurriedly removed and Mr. Sylvester Nwoye a Deputy Director who read only Economics was brought to replace him. Four days after he resumed duties in my office, his name was listed as a Member of the Contract Award Committee to represent ENSUBEB. All the applications sent in respect of the Award were collected by Mr. Uche Abel Nwobodo. The Contract Award Committee rather than considering all the applications only considered a few and approved only four companies to execute a contract of 583 projects. See App 10 24).
BY THE PROCUREMENT ACT, NO CONTRACTOR IS EXPECTED TO TENDER OR TO BE AWARDED MORE THAN ONE PROJECT OR ONE LOT, BUT IN THIS CASE THE COMMITTEE APPROVED ONLY FOUR COMPANIES TO EXECUTE 583 PROJECTS, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT I TOLD THEM THAT THIS WAS NOT POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT AND DID NOT FOLLOW DUE PROCESS. The companies’ names so approved were: New Techniques Nig. Ltd, Raycon Nig. Ltd, J & J Techno Nig. Ltd and Akiota Work Nig. Ltd
And so sir the 3.6 Billion and 583 projects would be carried out as follows: Four companies to handle the 583 projects, Eremite Ltd. to roof all the School buildings in the State, Intercolour Paints Ltd is only to supply all paints for
the projects (while) Chief of staff Ifeoma Nwobodo and Mr. Cornelius Nnaji Chairman Enugu East Local Government Area to supply the furniture — school Chairs at the unit cost of N29, 000 (Twenty Nine Thousand Naira). I pointed out to them that the unit cost for the chairs was N8, 000 (Eight Thousand Naira ) by UBEC but the Executive Secretary Mr. Dan Onyishi was directed by the Chief of Staff to increase the Budgetary allocation to the Ministry of Education to accommodate the increase and that will be an extra N21, 000 (Twenty One Thousand Naira) per chair. .…….. ………On October, 30″‘ 2012, I had a meeting with the chief of staff, in which I told her that, the process and the method of award of contracts was wrong, and that it was unfortunate that she confused His Excellency to award this contract in this manner. She shouted at me raised threats and abuses on me and told me that His Excellency would do nothing as she was in control of Enugu State. She even boasted that His Excellency only views while she approves, and walked me out of her office. She told me there and then that I was joking with my life.
“She even threatened to deal with me and ensure that His Excellency removes me as Chairman of ENSUBEB. A group of boys in a vehicle pursued my car trying to overtake it and making effort to block me, but I narrowly escaped. Same day at night, there were gunshots in front of my house. I am in great danger. I could not sleep in my house last night and so had to escape to a church where I passed the night to avoid being killed”. (Then in my office) “.. and when I announced that the Bids could not be opened, I was attacked by Uche Abel Nwobodo and his thugs from Government House. I narrowly escaped death in my office; and later over thirty policemen and soldiers rushed into my office and remained there for days, while Mrs. Nwobodo phoned me and was mad at me.
A distress call warned me to leave Enugu and that if I stayed till the next day, it would be difficult to leave town as the Chief of Staff had given directives to shoot me. I left Enugu hurriedly at 6.45 pm and took the new road to Abuja. I was on exile for two months during which period my 34 years old son who works in the Office of the Commissioner for Agriculture died. I could not see his corpse and I had no privilege of being at his burial”.
“When the Chief of Staff, Ifeoma Nwobodo could not collect the bids from me or kill me, she, along with the Secretary to the State Government hurriedly dissolved my Board, which is tenure-based (to finally have her way) and I am challenging it in court……I have worked assiduously in my job to justify the confidence His Excellency reposed in me; unfortunately, my efforts to move education forward is being watered down by people like Mrs. Nwobodo who are in government and whose main preoccupation is to frustrate genuine efforts of hardworking and committed individuals like me, while ensuring that they give His Excellency the erroneous impression that they are loyal to him,”.
ENUGU STATE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION BOARD, ESUBEB
As in our memo to His Excellency Mr. President, ( find attached photocopy of Daily Sun Newspaper page 11 of July 15, 2014) we still maintain that it is our passionate prayers that you kindly direct a thorough and holistic investigation with a view to establishing the veracity of the highlighted claims above. It is equally our sincere opinion that this is a highly- sensitive matter especially when viewed from the emotional and psychological pains and frustrations associated with someone losing a son and not witnessing the burial for fear of being murdered also. Meanwhile following are the issues still agitating our minds and that of larger Nigerians:
- Was IGP actually in receipt of the said petition? What action(s) did the police take? Why was the newspaper under review not read in Enugu?
- Did “the Chief of Staff set up Education Sector Committee with herself (Mrs. Nwobodo) as the Chairman”? If yes, where did she derive her powers from given that she is just an appointed aide of the governor?
- Was there actual “irregularities in award of contract” as alleged especially as “the Executive Secretary, Mr. Dan Onyishi was directed by the Chief of Staff to increase the budgetary allocation to the Ministry of Education to accommodate the increase to N29, 000, and that will be an extra N21, 000 (Twenty One Thousand Naira) per chair”?
- Did “the Commissioner for Education in a letter Ref ENS/ME/COM/253/11/227 dated 10th July, 2012 stated that a committee had been set up for the award of ENSUBEB Contracts…(in-which the) Committee rather than considering all the applications only considered a few and approved only four companies to execute contracts totaling 583 projects? If yes, what is the position of the Procurement Act in this case?
- Was Sylvester Nwonye actually qualified for the position of PRS?
- Why would Uche Abel Nwobodo be the one to collect bid documents for ENSUBEB? Who are the promoters or sponsors of the companies namely New Techniques Nigeria Limited, Raycon Nigeria Limited, J&J Techno Nigeria Limited, and Akiota Work Nigeria Limited as well as Eremite Ltd and Intercolour Paints Ltd? How eligible were they as at the contract award?
- What is the basis or extent of involvement of Cornelius Nnaji who was barely six months old then as a council chairman? Was he actually fronting for Chime or who? Was he actually earmarked to supply the chairs whose prices were criminally inflated?
- Who actually dissolved the ENSUBEB Board, and why? How has the Board been faring since Ifeoma Nwobodo allegedly took control especially in the award of contracts? Is it true that contracts are done by direct labour in Enugu State?
- Was there actual threat to life, how and by whom? What has been Governor Chime’s reaction to all these?
We rest our case as we and the whole world anticipate your usual decisive actions towards stemming the dehumanizing growing impunities and hydra-headed corruption in Enugu State”.
It is hence our opinion that this grave crime of organized embezzlement of public monies and brazen circumvention of established public transactional laws by those in positions of trust and authority shall neither be trivialized nor politicized using EFCC, at the expense of the poor and steadily-impoverished masses of Enugu State, and also in apparent disregard to the intensified fight against corruption by the federal government, especially as EFCC is said to have since resolved the issue.
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION DEPARTMENT
Additionally sir, we humbly call for a comprehensive crosscheck of the financial records of the Project Development and Implementation, PDI Department headed by Uche Nwobodo also mentioned above, especially between 2011 and 2014. This is highly imperative given that Ifeoma Nwobodo, Governor Chime’s Chief of Staff uses this MDA in addition to the ESUBEB lately to siphon state funds through the perennial criminal patronage of phantom contractors and with the fraudulent resort to using Direct Labour (?) to execute state projects as raised earlier. Through this means she ensures that only contractors that guarantee her kick-back get jobs. And it is note-worthy that in PDI and ESUBEB under her armpit, contracts are not awarded to companies but to individuals, which obviously was why she sacked Mrs. Ethel Nebo-Abasili for attempting to resist her and insisting that due process must be followed in award of contracts. But for Uche Nwobodo’s PDI, it is business as usual. Hence there is an urgent need for the list and details of the contracts so far executed under the two agencies including the contacts of the contractors and amount of money involved. We have severally requested for these data relying on the Freedom of Information, FOI, Acts to no avail.
13 BILLION NAIRA STATE SECRETARIAT COMPLEX
Again, we call for independent and detailed scrutiny of the Contract Agreement between the Enugu State Government and the Arab Contractors for the Construction of the 13 Billion Naira Secretariat Complex.
Investigation shall reveal how Ifeoma Nwobodo uses the contracting firm to launder monies abroad through her incessant trips to UAE. It was her criminal and unilateral inflation of the contract sum from 8 to 13 billion naira that generated the controversies that cost the former Accountant-General of the State, Eunice Ugwu, her office. The upward review was neither deliberated at the Executive Council nor appropriated for by the Enugu State House of Assembly. The details of the project are shrouded in secrecy because of selfish interests.
BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION
We hereby call for your critical examination of the overall state budget implementation at least between 2011 and 2014 to see how Ifeoma Nwobodo uses “Governor’s Office” to misappropriate state funds under the guise of budgetary allocations. For example a cursory look at the Enugu State Budget Estimate of 2012 will show among others also how she used a sum of thirteen million naira, N13M, to purchase just public address system and millions for Capacity Building that never took place. Please find attached Vanguard Newspaper page 29 of August 21, 2014 and a copy of 2012 Budget Estimate. We have as well made series of request to see and know how the four months state allocations from the federation accounts were disbursed while Governor Chime was away for treatments as well as who benefits from the millions budgeted for Government House poultry and annual “furnishing of Banquet Hall”. That again will throw more light on how she loots the state treasury with reckless abandon.
ENUGU STATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Enugu State Housing Development Corporation was surprisingly listed among the loan defaulters of the failed banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yet huge sums of money are being appropriated annually for the parastatal which equally realizes monies from sales of houses in the state. But Ifeoma Nwobodo has severally announced that the debt had since been offset. If that is the case, then we request that you kindly help us and by extension the tax-paying people of Enugu State, to unravel why in the first place, the debt of 2 billion naira was incurred and the approval as well as source (bank account) from-which Ifeoma Nwobodo paid it up. Meanwhile find attached CBN publication on This Day Newspaper of October 15 2009 to that effect.
INTER-MINISTERIAL BREACHES
In the same vein, it was alleged that Ifeoma Nwobodo authorized the state Ministry of Lands and Urban Development to make an illegal demand of N700 million as accumulated approval fees and penalties for building illegal sites, out of-which N85, 785, 000 has been paid by a telecom service provider, MTN. It is again our candid appeal that you assist us to establish the basis for this payment and also who received it. This among others falls under the purview of the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources as can be verified from the Laws establishing the Enugu State Waste Management Authority. Find attached photocopy of the Gazette and This Day Newspaper page 12c of July 18, 2014. Ifeoma Nwobodo should also be made to explain her extent of involvement in the failed N200 million Free Internet Service project which was to be undertaken by Zinox Technologies Limited. If as she recently announced that the money was refunded, what was the reason, how much was actually refunded and where is the proof?
CRIMINAL DIVERSION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS
Using the two local government council areas of Nkanu-West and Enugu-East financial administration and management between 2010 and date as case study, you will discover how Ifeoma Nwobodo encouraged the criminal retirement of non-existent projects just to cover up for the Enugu State Local Government councils funds being used for her privatel ventures.
For instance and apparently making a veiled reference to Ifeoma Nwobodo, a socio-cultural body known as Nkanu-West Progressives Forum in an advertorial on page 49 of The Nation Newspaper of September 5, 2011 (attached) stated that “it was sadly observed that the only LG that MUST SURELY pit the anti-corruption agencies against Enugu State Government later is the present Nkanu-West. It is highly inevitable! Funds are being embezzled with reckless abandon…it was surprisingly alleged that a top government simply gets between 3 and 5 million naira a month from the Council Chairman as a royalty meant to feather the nest of the functionary …it was verified that no single meaningful project was executed in Nkanu-West LGA in the last 2 years except the purchased electricity transformers that are today lying desolate in the various homes of the recipients due to lack of facilities to put them to use, and the 3-4 room shabbily constructed semblance of health centre, that are not functional and which cost N21 million even without perimeter fence and equipment…….
…it was discovered from the text of Chairman’s 2011 Budget Proposal to the Legislative Chamber, that a whooping sum of N5 million was allocated to just procurement of 700 wooden desks for primary school directly opposite his Obinagu-Uwani Akpugo house (and that of Ifeoma Nwobodo), for-which the councilors declined consideration let alone approval(yet he went ahead to implement it)………it was also reported that the Chairman claimed to have spent a sum of N17 million in newspaper advertorials for Governor within the last 16 months and another N10 million recently to “buy” the secretaryship of Enugu State PDP for the local government, which according to the supervisor, Government House (through Ifeoma Nwobodo) acknowledged…….it was also shockingly revealed by Chairman’s aide that the Secretary of the Joint Allocation Committee is in discreet agreement with Okenwa (the Chairman) to ensure that the Revenue Allocation records favour Nkanu-West LGA, after every meeting, and or-which he was asked to ignore the Enugu State House of Assembly Committee who came to perform oversight function at the LG.”
The organization further called on Governor Sullivan Chime “to adopt whatever necessary measures to dispassionately resolve this sufficient contradiction, particularly as the chairman has resorted to name-dropping to the point that Mrs. Nwobodo is now being portrayed as the Sole Administrator of Nkanu-West”. It also added that “by this, if the much-celebrated Freedom of Information Bill is truly a timely relief, then the EFCC, ICPC, CCB, Police cause the leadership of Nkanu-West LGA to make public its financial records in relation to Revenue Allocation, contract awards and project implementation/expenditure”. It is equally our request that the investigations be extended to the 17 local government councils of Enugu State to determine how Ifeoma Nwobodo has been milking away tax payers’ money through State/LG joint project funding. Over 8 months into the administration of the present local governments in the state, there is nothing on ground to show for the monthly federal allocations they receive. The only on-going project is the premature electoral campaigns being funded collectively by the council chairmen using salaries and wages of non-existent political appointees to retire the N10 million they individually contribute monthly. Their annual budget proposals with proofs of legislative approvals and projects executed with the details of the contractors as well as staff strength are to be scrutinized to determine the magnitude of the organized corruption going on in the system.
Again, Ogonogoeji-Ndiuno-Ndiagu Road Project in Akpugo Nkanu-West LGA was abandoned till date simply because the money for it was used by the former council boss, Ekene Okenwa, to fight Ifeoma Nwobodo’s political battle but still was retired as having been done. Till date, he is yet to declare how much he realized from the sales of a mini-housing estate and market stalls both at Agbani where Ifeoma Nwobodo was given substantial units of the buildings. For further details on the Eke-Agbani Market fraud, this telephone number is very useful: 08037909606. Another case is the Enugu-East LGA under Cornelius Nnaji who has equally been mentioned earlier in the inflated contract scam. He is the person that uses his position as the Chairman of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, to extort his colleagues under the guise of raising funds for the political ambition of Ifeoma Nwobodo. Cornelius Nnaji who is also the Director-General of Ifeoma Nwobodo Campaign Organization inflated the contract sums for the rehabilitation of his village town hall in Nike and renovation of the council headquartres. We still insist on you taking a look at the financial records of the local governments, particularly those of Enugu-East, Enugu-North, Enugu-South, Isiuzo, Nkanu-West and Nkanu-East within the last four years at least to see how much that are being spent frivolously in favour of Ifeoma Nwobodo. Every effort made by the State House of Assembly to look into the series of abandoned projects within the rural areas was stopped by Ifeoma Nwobodo for fear of being exposed.
In addition to the Arab Contractors, the two major facilitators of her money-laundering crime through special accounts are Ken Ene Oko of Fidelity Bank, Rangers Avenue Branch and Iheanyi Nwogu of Access Bank, Ebeano Branch, all in Enugu. Another useful link is one Douglas (08033133683) that works in Enugu State Accountant-General’s office who has been going from one bank to another streamlining all their muddled-up accounts in anticipation of possible review. It would be recalled that according to Mrs. Ethel Nebo-Abasili, “the Chief of staff Ifeoma Nwobodo invited me to her office on January 3th 2012 and told me that his Excellency directed that the abandoned projects would be handled mainly by party (Peoples’ Democratic Party) stakeholders who had complained about not enjoying sufficient democracy dividends. She told me that the project would be executed by Direct Labor and that the money in respect of the project would be withdrawn and put in a special account. Her suggestion was not surprising to me because most projects in Enugu State (Not ENSUBEB) are done by Direct Labor”.
GENERAL ABUSE OF OFFICE/SUNDRY BREACHES
And then to underscore her insatiate quest for criminal amassment, Ifeoma Nwobodo who before corrupt enrichment worked as an accountant at the Nike Lake Hotel and lived in a rented Duplex with her husband who is a newly-appointed Judge in Enugu State High Court at GRA near Onoh Quarters, Enugu; apart from using her private company to take up management of the Nike Lake Hotel now has these among others to her credit:
- Bought a duplex at Coal City Garden, Enugu, where her parents presently live,
- Built several nos of duplex at the Golf Estate, Enugu, through the Enugu State Housing Development Corporation,
- Built a mansion at Ridgeway Road, GRA Enugu where she currently lives,
- Built a Twin Duplex at Ekulu Housing Estate a.k.a Zoo Estate,
- Owns a Duplex at the CBN Quarters Estate Trans-Ekulu still built by Enugu State Housing Corporation.
- Owns two Duplexes under construction at the Liberty Housing Estate behind Federal Secretariat/NTA Complex, Independence Layout, Enugu,
- Bought houses in Abuja
- Owns highly expensive and mostly bullet-proof cars.
All these are evidences of a public officer living above her means. But once again, we have implicit confidence in your ability to live up to your calling particularly at a time such as this when ICPC seems to be the only hope of the greater percentage of the public especially concerning the afore-mentioned claim of EFCC verdict.
Thank you and please accept the assurances of our highest regards even as we beg for your kind permission to send a copy to the Presidency and also with a promise to supply further details as investigations progress.
Yours faithfully,
Ken Ossy Eneh,
Chairman, Mobilization and Publicity Committee,
