Former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has said his ongoing probe by over seven panels set up by the State government “is improper and questionable”
Okorocha’s Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemedo, in a statement in Owerri, said Okorocha was never against his probe.
“We want to also make it clear that Okorocha has never been against his probe. But only taking exception to using the probe issue to diminish or discredit the more than one thousand verifiable projects of his administration, for the eight years he was governor. Or, using the probe stuff, to blackmail him and the family or conduct needless media trial” Mr. Onwuemedo wrote
He stated that the Attorney General of the State, had signed an undertaking in court to stop forthwith Okorocha’s continued probe by the panel.
Part of the statement reads “ The most exciting thing that happened in the court on Wednesday, July 8, 2020, was that, the Judge extracted oral undertaking from the lawyer that represented the Attorney General of the State, Mr. Joseph Matthew, that the panels would not sit again during the pendency of the matter.
“Following this undertaking by Barr. Matthew, the Judge then directed that all the parties in the matter should not do anything that would tamper with the Rex of the matter. The import of this directive, does not require interpretation.
“And what prompted the Judge to give this directive was that Barr. Matthew, for the Attorney General of the state had told the court that the panels had stopped sitting. But counsel to Senator Okorocha, Chief Maduabuchi Obah, (SAN), showed the Judge the publication by Justice B.C. Iheaka’s panel on Contracts Award that Wednesday, inviting the former Governor and others to appear before it on selected dates. At that point, the Judge was angry and then gave the directive in question.
“Unfortunately, and we want to complain that, inspite of the directive of Justice Mohammed, the Judicial Panel headed by Justice B.C. Iheaka has continued to sit. It sat on Thursday, July 9, 2020, a day after Justice Mohammed gave the directive. And all these are in desperation to get at Okorocha and the family. Otherwise, a Judge ought to know that once a matter is before a court, every other action on that matter should be suspended.
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