The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is increasing examination on ex-Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.
The EFCC is exploring charges that the previous senator stole N108bn amid his residency somewhere around 2007 and 2015.
As of now, the counter join organization had kept in touch with five banks requesting data on Akwa Ibom State accounts under Akpabio's organization.
So also, the EFCC is making moves to welcome key individuals from the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly and serving chiefs, a considerable lot of whom served amid the ex-representative's organization.
A source at the EFCC said, "We have kept in touch with Zenith Bank, Keystone Bank, FCMB, Skye Bank, and UBA requesting data on the state's records. We are additionally welcoming the bookkeeper general, the reviewer general, the Speaker and the representative of the House of Assembly. We have followed a few houses to the previous representative in Lagos and Abuja and it is simply a question of time before we seize them."
Akpabio was initially tested by the commission's criminologists a year ago after arrangement of petitions composed against him.
The previous representative, now the Senate Minority Leader, was blamed for stealing open assets while he was legislative leader of the oil-rich state.
In March 2013, he was blamed for giving N1m each to six directors of the Peoples Democratic Party from the South-South geopolitical zone that had joined on Port Harcourt for a gathering compromise session, instructing them to utilize the cash to "purchase Mr Biggs."
Couple of weeks back, the Akwa Ibom State government had gone to a state High Court to get a between time request banning the EFCC from examining Akpabio's organization.
The Justice Ntong-drove court on July 15 conceded an interval order, controlling the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission, and the Inspector General of Police from researching the funds of the Akwa Ibom State government.
The suit was recorded in the interest of the state government by the state Attorney-General, Uwemedimo Nwoko, who additionally served under Akpabio and is accepted to be faithful to the previous senator.
Notwithstanding, taking after a movement on notification documented by the EFCC, the court on Friday, abandoned the request of between time directive limiting the EFCC from researching the records of state.
The judge then suspended the matter till October 19 for knowing about the preparatory protest of the EFCC nearby different applications.
In a June 22, 2015 appeal to EFCC, an Abuja-based attorney and lobbyist, Leo Ekpenyong had blamed Akpabio for sheer waste in office.
Among a few different assertions, the applicant affirmed that amongst January and December 2014, the trio of Godswill Akpabio, a previous helper to the representative and another partner made illicit however generous withdrawals of money from an assigned state government-possessed record with Zenith Bank with record number 101037588, adding up to N22.1bn.
At the point when reached on the phone on Saturday, Akpabio's representative, Mr. Aniete Ekong, said he was in an open place and guaranteed to get back to. Be that as it may, he had yet to do as such as of the season of documenting this report.
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