{"id":24090,"date":"2014-03-10T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=24090"},"modified":"2014-03-10T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T20:46:04","slug":"bayelsa-govt-denies-filing-suit-against-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/bayelsa-govt-denies-filing-suit-against-efcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa Govt Denies Filing Suit Against EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attention of the Bayelsa State Government has been drawn to a publication in some sections of the media entitled \u201cBayelsa asks EFCC to remit N1.4bn from Alamieyeseigha\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The said reports quoted one Mr. George Uboh, Chief Executive of Panic Alert Security System, reportedly acting on the mandate of the Bayelsa State Government, wrote to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to remit the twin sums N1.4 billion and 1.3 million USD recovered from a former Governor of the State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha.<\/p>\n<p>The Bayelsa State Government denies the reports and stated categorically clear that, it did not mandate any individual or firm to act on its behalf to request or institute any suit against the EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>A Government statement frowned at the reports and called on the EFCC and the general public to disregard the publications.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also urged journalists to always clarify issues, especially as sensitive as this, before going to press.<\/p>\n<p><b>Daniel Iworiso-Markson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Bayelsa State<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attention of the Bayelsa State Government has been drawn to a publication in some sections of the media entitled \u201cBayelsa asks EFCC to remit N1.4bn from Alamieyeseigha\u201d The said&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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