The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) arrested Prince Uche Secondus in Abuja last week for
allegedly received cars worth N310 million from Jide Omokore
The anti-graft agency is however
still investigating Secondus relationship with the oil baron who is also on the
anti-graft agency’s radar Reports indicates that the EFCC last night released
the deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP), Prince Uche
Secondus.
Sources at the EFCC said Secondus
was released at about 8.30 pm last night. The former acting chairman of the PDP
however had his passport seized and was made to produce two sureties with a
N750 million bond each. The sureties are Federal Civil Servants on Grade Level
17. Secondus’ counsel, Mr. Emeka Etiaba (SAN), said: “The PDP deputy national
chairman has been released but under extremely stringent conditions. For a man
whose alleged offence has not been proven, he does not deserve stringent bail
terms.”
The EFCC detained Secondus for allegedly
receiving 23 choice vehicles from Mr Jide Omokore, a business associate of
ex-minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. Reports
however surfaced in the media that the EFCC turned down Secondus offer to
return the 23 vehicles. Secondus was picked up by officials of the EFCC hours
after he handed over to the PDP new chairman, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff.
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