The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been called upon to investigate the ownership of a 40billion naira world class hotel project allegedly being bankrolled by the Governor of Ebonyi state, Dave Umahi.
It was gathered that the luxurious hotel with a swimming pool at its roof top is located at No. 3 Olaka Street, off Abacha Road, G.R.A, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
However, in a statement signed by its President, Amb Pascal Oluchukwu, a group, Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in Diaspora (AESID), have asked the EFCC and other anti-corruption agencies to begin to gather facts and evidence on the ownership of the multi-billion naira project.
The group said the call was necessary due to the continuous silence of Dave Umahi on allegations linking him to the ownership of the luxurious structure.
The group said, “Our position on this revelation is that Governor Umahi must speak up on this monumental allegations within at least 24 hours and the anti-graft agencies should begin to gather their facts and evidences aright and await the days of reckoning, knowing that immunity protects him from being prosecuted by the Nigerian government even at this point.”
The group further expressed disgust at the misappropriation of the states resources despite the unenviable position occupied by Ebonyi as one of the poorest states in the country.
“The fact that the said hotel project started just in 2016 is even more worrisome for the indigenes of a state like Ebonyi where endemic and anthropogenic poverty is the order of the day, having been accurately ranked the poorest state in the entire Southern Nigeria and the 3rd poorest among the 36 States of the Nigerian Federation, “it said
