Kotun Babban Kotun Tarayya da ke Abuja ta ba da umarnin daskarewa da kuma watsi da kudin N228.4 miliyan da aka danganta da tsohon gwamnan jihar Abia, Theodore Orji. Alkali Emeka Nwite ne ya ba da umarnin watsi na wucin gadi a ranar Laraba bayan hukumar yaki da cin hanci da rashawa ta yi kara na musamman.
Hukumar yaki da cin hanci da rashawa (EFCC) ta nemi umarnin daskarewa ta hanyar lauyanta, Fadila Yusuf, wanda ya gabatar da kara a gaban alkali. Yusuf ya ce watsi da kudin yana da muhimmanci ga binciken da hukumar ke yi kan zargin safarar kudi da ake yi wa tsohon gwamnan.
Bayan ya ba da umarnin, alkali ya umurci EFCC da ta buga umarnin a cikin jarida domin sanar da wadanda abin ya shafa. Orji, wanda ya yi wa’adi biyu a matsayin gwamnan jihar Abia, ya kuma yi wa’adi a matsayin sanata mai wakiltar mazabar Abia ta Tsakiya kafin ya yi ritaya daga siyasa.
A cikin kara mai lamba FHC/ABJ/CS/03/V/2025 da aka yi a ranar 30 ga Disamba, 2024, EFCC ta nemi “Umarni na daskarewa da watsi na wucin gadi na kudin N228,497,773.12 da ke cikin Keystone Bank da aka sanya a cikin jadawalin da aka haÉ—a da Gwamnatin Tarayya ta Najeriya.”
Bisa ga EFCC, an sami kudaden a hannun kamfanin Effdee Nigeria Ltd kuma ana zargin cewa kudaden sun fito ne daga ayyukan haram. Hukumar ta yi zargin cewa Effdee Nigeria Ltd ta yi hannu tare da Orji, jami’an gwamnatin sa, da kuma ‘yan uwansa don yaudarar Gwamnatin Jihar Abia ta hanyar “haÉ—in gwiwa, cin amanar ofis, safarar kudi, da kuma karkatar da kudaden jama’a.”
A cikin takardar shaida da aka gabatar a goyon bayan kara, wani jami’in shari’a na EFCC, Tahir Ahmed, ya bayyana cewa hukumar ta sami bayanai tsakanin 2016 da 2017 da ke nuna Orji, abokansa, da ‘yan uwansa. Ya ce kamfanin Effdee Nigeria Ltd, wani kamfani mai kula da sharar gida, an yi amfani da shi don yin safarar kudaden Gwamnatin Jihar Abia.
Ahmed ya yi iƙirarin cewa an yi amfani da kamfanin don karkatar da kudade daga asusun gwamnati tare da taimakon jami’an banki. Ya kara da cewa wani shugaban sashe na banki a Umuahia ya yi aiki a matsayin mai shiga tsakani tsakanin Effdee Nigeria Ltd da Erondu Uchenna Erondu, wani Mashawarcin Musamman a gwamnatin Orji.
“An raba kudaden zuwa wasu asusun abokan ciniki, an cire su a matsayin tsabar kudi, kuma aka mayar da su ga Mashawarcin Musamman a Fadar Gwamnati,” in ji shi. Alkali Nwite, bayan ya ba da umarnin watsi na wucin gadi, ya ba wa duk wanda ke da sha’awar kudaden damar bayyana a gaban sa cikin kwanaki 14 don nuna dalilin da ya sa ba za a yi watsi da kudaden ba ga Gwamnatin Tarayya. Ya dage shari’ar har zuwa 3 ga Fabrairu don rahoton bin umarni.
