Anambra Senatorial District, Senator Stella Oduah has debunked reports that she was being trailed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly keeping N2.5 billion in a bank account of her domestic worker.
In a statement released on Monday by her Head of Communications, Francisca Onyeisi, Senator Oduah said she received the reports while relaxing in her country home in Ogbaru, Anambra State.
SaharaReporters, had on Sunday reported that EFCC sources had reveled to it how Ms. Oduah used the name and pictures of the unnamed maid to set up the account.
“Senator Oduah apparently opened the account with her housemaid’s name, image, and details without the housemaid knowing about it,” it was reported.
Oduah described such allegations as “totally false, baseless and at best the imagination of the publishers,” the ex-Minister said that “if the reports were true, I would have been arrested long before now, especially at a time when the EFCC is freezing accounts and going after opposition governors who enjoy same level of immunity as the president.”
The former minister, therefore, urged her supporters and the general public to ignore the reports, saying she had “made a mark in oil and gas and Agricultural businesses before joining politics.”
Ms. Oduah who was recently elected as the President of ECOWAS female parliamentarians, was removed from office in February 2014 after she was found to have received armoured BMW cars, worth N255million, from an agency she supervised.
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