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The pictures of the wanted persons and the details of their alleged crimes were displayed in a notice signed by the Commission’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, and posted on its website.
The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike may be under the investigation radder as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has named four top officials of his government among the 59 suspects declared wanted for various financial crimes Pointblanknews.com learnt.
The officials, comprising three men and one woman, were declared wanted by the anti-graft agency over alleged criminal conspiracy, money laundering, misappropriation of public funds and abuse of office to the tune of N117billion.
The four Rivers government officials include one Fubara Siminayi, a 43-year-old Director of Finance of the Rivers State Government; Lekia V. Bukpor, Dagogo Rodderick Abere, and the only woman among them, Harrisonba Bessi Princewill, a cashier.
The pictures of the wanted persons and the details of their alleged crimes were displayed in a notice signed by the Commission’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, and posted on its website.
According to the EFCC, the suspects, “in their capacity as signatories to the Rivers State Government account, are alleged to have acted as proxies to several government officials, conspired and fraudulently withdrew and diverted the sum between 2015 and 2018.”
It added that all the suspects hailed from Rivers State and urged members of the public with useful information as to the whereabouts of the said persons to contact any of the Commission’s offices or the nearest police station or other security agencies.