APC using EFCC to chase away investors from Nigeria – Akwa Ibom Govt

The Akwa Ibom State Government has raised the alarm that the
activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), if
not checked would scare away foreign investors from Nigeria.

Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Charles Udoh, who stated
this when he spoke with newsmen in Uyo, yesterday, said, "if the EFCC
witch-hunt is allowed to continue, it would work against the growth of
the nation."

According to him, if the anti-graft agency was continually used by the
All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government as an attack
tool against political opponents, investors would abandon Nigeria due
to a feeling of insecurity.

He said, "it is the height of impunity and insensitivity for an agency
of the federal government to have frozen the account of a state
government without any prior notice or communication.

"Such would never have occurred if the federal government had any iota
of concern about the people of Akwa Ibom State, especially the public
servants whose means of livelihood they shut," he said.

Reacting to recent claims by the agency that N1.4 billion was traced
to 11 accounts belonging to the Akwa Ibom Government, Udoh declared
such as false, maintaining that the agency had no valid reason for
taking such step without any prior notice or communication.