₦airaland Forum

Former Governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji has shed light on how he spent N38.8billion security votes during his eight years in office.
He made the explanations to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) during interrogation.
Orji, who was in charge of the state between 2007 and 2015, is being investigated by the anti-graft commission for corruption.
He said he collected N38.8billion as security votes during the period and not N48billion as alleged by the EFCC.
Orji, who is currently representing Abia Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, said he shared much of the N38billion with members of the state House of Assembly,his security informants and traditional rulers.
He claimed to have also given part of the money to military units,the police,the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and security agencies as what he called statutory allocations.
In a tell-it-all statement to his interrogators,the former governor said he gave successive members of the State House of Assembly N5. 760billion, at N60million per month, in the eight years.
He also claimed to have paid N75million monthly to security informants in 15 of the 17 local government areas of the state within the same period.
The yet-to-be identified informants allegedly pocketed a total of N7.200billion between 2007 and 2015.
Some of the security agencies,according to him, received N2million per month.
However,he told the interrogators that he does not have a comprehensive list of all the beneficiaries of the largesse because the Government House staff who used to disburse the cash is no more.
He gave the man’s name simply as Felix.
Orji said he did not ask for the list from Felix at the expiration of his tenure as governor.
He only issued directives to Felix on how to share the security votes.
He also said he never collected cash either from the Director of Finance or the Cashier in Government House.
The EFCC insists that Orji collected N48billion in eight years.
It has retrieved five huge bags of documents from the relevant desks in Abia State on the ex-governor’s financial transactions.
Based on Orji’s confessions, the EFCC is expected to arraign him in court soon being in what a source described as “a straightforward case.”

http://www.politico.ng/how-i-spent-n38-8bn-security-votes-in-eight-years-as-abia-governor-sen-theodre-orji/

The yet-to-be identified informants allegedly pocketed a total of N7.200billion between 2007 and 2015.





In a sane country, with the above statement, this man suppose spend the rest of his kleptomaniac life in jail with both hands and legs chained!
Thieves! Goats!

Theodore Theodore!!! how many times I call u? tell us wetin u use dat money do fast

7 billion naira on informants in villages ...

This man has been discharged and acquitted. Watch and see as things unfold.

Nonsense.
I can see government money on his skin even

Tomide007:
7 billion naira on informants in villages ...

Asin
I'm in shock.

Let the Federal Government stop giving the states security votes. The governors are using it for their personal benefits without accounting for it.

Security vote is a scam and fraud.

This criminal should be ready to produce those handsomely paid informants and also tell us the wonderful security information that they provided.

During his tenure, armed robbers held sway in the state and kidnappers were picking people like snails in Abia.