Apex Igbo sociocultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndígbo has refuted reports that they issued a joint statement with a Yoruba group asking the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to tread softly by way of respecting the subsisting court order restraining it from arresting the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello over alleged N80.2 billion money laundering.
The National Publicity Secretary, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr. Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia said the name of the person; Chimaobi Ezejiofor who signed on behalf of Ohanaeze Ndígbo Youths is allien to the organisation and “a new entrant amongst the fraudsters, charlatans, impersonators and mischief makers who ride on the invaluable footprints of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to defraud the unsuspecting public.
“Secondly, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council is unknown to the organs and structures of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. It is a mischievous contrivance for illicit and immediate stomach infrastructure.”
Dr. Ogbonnia expressed dissatisfaction that some media houses give voice to these set of people, adding that they’ve no business with the activities of EFCC and as such, in no position to make any statement in an ongoing investigation.
“But, the most worrisome is the unscrupulous, duplicitous and compromised media contractors who collaborate with the transgressors and mercenaries to tarnish the hallowed image of the globally acknowledged umbrella organization that represents the Igbo collective consciousness. Still, the worst recrudescence is that some media platforms who have gained some impressive reputation have allowed their names to be associated with obnoxious yellow journalism. Otherwise, even the most unlettered mischief maker knows that the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo is Chief Engr.Dr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, MFR, OFR, CFR, FNICE, FNSE, FNIST, KSG (Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo) and Ambassador Okey Emuchay, MFR as the Secretary General; while the spokesman of the group is Rt.Hon. Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia,PhD.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the modus operandi of the EFCC is not within the current amplitude and resonance of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide led by Chief Iwuanyanwu; and thus cannot contemplate a press release for or against the EFCC.
“The Igbo Leader since his assumption of Office as the President General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has rather pre-occupied himself with rechanneling the Igbo entrepreneurship, inventiveness, ingenuity, and enormous human and material resources towards a new economic dawn, job opportunities and prosperity In Igbo land.”
