By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Monday gave reasons why the former Governor of Anambra state, Willie Maduaburochukwu Obiano is yet to be released by the anti-graft agency days after he was arrested.
Obiano who was arrested at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos last Thursday on his way to Houston, Texas in the United States of America (USA) shortly after he handed over the realms of power to Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo in Awka, was transferred to EFCC detention facilities in Abuja at the weekend is still being held by Commission.
But EFCC boss who spoke to reporters on the sideline of the 5th Annual General Assembly (AGA) meeting of the Network of National Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa (NACIWA), holding in Abuja on Monday disclosed that Obiano had yet to perfect the conditions the EFCC stipulated for his release on bail.
Asked why the Commission has kept the ex-Governor in its custody, beyond the period allowed by the Constitution, Bawa, said: “He has been granted bail and we are waiting for him to perfect the bail conditions and everything is going well”.
Prompt News reports that the former Governor, who had been on EFCC’s watchlist, was among other things, accused of misappropriating public funds totalling about N42billion.
