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Someone in the know at the anti-graft agency confirmed to our correspondent yesterday evening that a 39-count charge has been filed against the Speaker at the Federal High Court in Lagos.
The source said Ikuforiji would be arraigned alongside four others.
They are a member of the House, the Clerk of the Assembly the Accountant and the Speaker’s personal assistant.
The source however, declined to mention the PA to be arraigned.
But the Chief Press Secretary to the embattled speaker, Rotimi Adebayo, said there was no truth in the story, claiming that those behind it were only whipping an old issue known to everybody.
Speaking with our correspondent on phone last night, Adebayo claimed that the EFCC spokesman denied knowledge of the charges when he spoke with him in the afternoon.
‘It’s an old story. They are just whipping an old story. It’s published in today’s (yesterday) ThisDay and Punch abi? It’s an old story that everybody is aware of. I spoke with the EFCC spokesperson this afternoon (yesterday), he denied it. He said it’s not in his knowledge. He is our colleague in Abuja,’ Adebayo said.
The EFCC had, in September, invited Ikuforiji to its Abuja office, where he was questioned over allegation of misappropriating the sum of ₦7 billion belonging to the Assembly.
Some other principal officers of the assembly, including the former clerk, who retired in July, were also quizzed in Abuja after operatives of the commission raided the Assembly.
The operatives were said to have carted away valuable documents from the office of the Speaker and the assembly’s accounts department after the raid.
It would be recalled that an NGO, Kick Against Corruption, had petitioned the EFCC, alleging that Ikuforiji misappropriated the N7billion belonging to the house.
Ikuforiji, however, denied the allegation.
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