{"id":95261,"date":"2022-05-24T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95261"},"modified":"2022-05-24T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:37:44","slug":"why-we-stormed-okorochas-home-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/why-we-stormed-okorochas-home-efcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Stormed Okorocha\u2019s Home \u2013 EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 24, 2022, arrived at the Maitama, Abuja home of a former governor of Imo state, Senator Rochas Okorocha, to effect his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The move followed the refusal of the former governor to honour invitations after jumping the administrative bail earlier granted him by the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC had on January 24, 2022 filed a 17-count criminal charge bordering on diversion of public funds and properties to the tune of N2.9billion against Okorocha.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe case was assigned to Honourable Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja but attempts to arraign Senator Okorocha were twice stalled owing to the absence of the ex-governor who evaded service of processes.<\/p>\n<p>At the last adjourned date, March 28th, 2022, Justice Ekwo before adjourning until May 30th, 2022, had warned that it was \u201cthe last adjournment I shall grant in this matter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the circumstances, the Commission is left with no option than to effect the arrest of Senator Okorocha and bring him to trial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\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>Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 24, 2022, arrived at the Maitama, Abuja home of a former governor of Imo state, Senator Rochas Okorocha, to&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":95262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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