Ex-Abia Gov Orji Arrested at Abuja Airport by EFCC

The immediate past governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji was today arrested by  the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

Senator Orji has been on the commission’s watch list, and was intercepted at about 10 am this morning by the commission agents and taken to the headquarters of the EFCC at Jabi, Abuja, for continuation of his interrogation.

Report has it that Orji is presently being quizzed alongside his son, Chinedu, who is the Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly.

Chinedu is said to have turned himself in this afternoon upon learning of the arrest of his father.

Senator Orji and his sons, Chinedu and Ogbonna, are under investigation by the EFCC for alleged misappropriation of public funds and money laundering to the tune of N551 billion.

The ex- governor was alleged to have embezzled the N500 million monthly security vote he received for eight years as governor of Abia state between 2007 and 2015.

Other issues relate to the alleged mismanagement of N2bn Ecological Fund and conversion of Sure-P funds.

EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest of the former governor.