House of Representatives candidate for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency of Abia State on the platform of All Progressives Congress APC, Chief Daniel Okeke has taken a swipe at one Mr. Onny Igbokwe for sponsoring what he described as blatant falsehood against him, urging members of the public to ignore the said publication.
Mr. Igbokwe had in the said publication in which he masqueraded as a “whistle-blower” accused the trio of Senator Dr. Emmanuel Onwe a Senatorial candidate in Ebonyi, Chief Okeke and one Mrs. Ilomechizine of deceiving the Presidential Amnesty Programme, that they had fishery, poultry and rice farms for the delivery of the projects, a situation under which they entered into a contract bid and won a contract to the tune of N482, 422,500.00.
According to Igbokwe who called himself a whistle-blower, the contract is for the training of 90 Niger-Delta Youths on Rice, Fish, and Poultry Farming for a duration of six months who are beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Program, PAP under the Niger-Delta Youths Empowerment Project.
He however alleged that the trio have no prerequisite qualification to bid for the contract. He, therefore, sees their winning during the bid process as a deception, calling for their prosecution in a petition.
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Chief Okeke however sees Mr. Igbokwe’s outcry as the weeping of a “fraudster” whose criminal plans were thwarted, describing Igbokwe as a habitual blackmailer whose stock-in-trade is to malign, dupe people and perpetrate fraud for which he (Igbokwe) in the past narrowly escaped being jailed.
Narrating what transpired, Chief Okeke said there is no shadow of truth in Igbokwe’s allegation.
He said, “Onny Igbokwe (Ikemba)has a Senator friend from Ebonyi. His name is Sen. Onwe who has a business idea on farming and Mr. Igbokwe introduced him to a lady (Mrs. Ilomechizine) who has contact with Presidential Amnesty Program (PAP) office and Sen. Onwe was able to defend the job through his presentation and bid thereafter and he was awarded the contract
“Before then they had no company competent enough to handle such a job so Ikemba (Mr. Igbokwe) approached me for my company which I agreed and released to them.
“Last January, they came to me for account opening and Mr. Igbokwe insisted we must use his own account officer not knowing he had a plan.
“We allowed him but surprisingly we found out that he changed the bank mandate and made himself sole signatory, a document which I have and can tender as well.
“When I noticed this, the next thing I did was to remove his name as a signatory because he breached the trust we had with him. Confidence was lost because it this particular suspicious move.
“Thereafter he became angry because his plan to commit fraud was busted and he couldn’t nurse the frustration. Don’t also forget, Sen. Onwe had already promised to share 50/50 of the proceeds with him after the execution.
“But being someone who was nursing a criminal intent of absconding with the money, even though he had no input in the project, he wasn’t satisfied so he resorted to blackmail,” Chief Okeke told ABN TV.
Chief Okeke further alleged that when an unholy alliance between Mr. Igbokwe with the domiciled bank was discovered, the funds were transferred to another dedicated account.
It was at this time that Mr. Igbokwe, according to Chief Okeke felt that he and others had made away with the money, leading Mr. Igbokwe to write a petition to the Amnesty Office, accusing the trio of fraud and not ready to do the said job.
Chief Okeke while insisting that he was not part of the job execution rather, his company was just used, a service for which he charged 5 percent of net as owner of the company.
He added that Mr. Igbokwe has gone ahead to forward a proposal, requesting for the payment of the sum of N84,950.000 as amount due to him so that he will withdraw from the contract deal.
Chief Okeke while counseling Mr. Igbokwe to shun fraud noted that he (Igbokwe) almost landed in the prison some years back over a similar incident involving top officials of Zinox Technologies Limited in which Onny Igbokwe, Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, Zinox Group, and Technology Distribution, Chris Ozims, and a director of Technology Distribution, Folashade Oyebode; the chief executive of Ad’mas Digital Technologies Limited and Pirovics Engineering Services Limited, one Princess O. Kama, and some officials of Access Bank PLC were accused of hijacking a contract belonging to an Ibadan-based IT firm, Citadel Oracle Concept Limited.
He, therefore, denied any complicity in the alleged contract and urged members of the public to ignore Mr. Igbokwe and his publication which he said is a sponsored blackmail to malign him.
Several attempts to get Mr. Igbokwe’s reaction on the allegation proved abortive as his phone lines were unreachable at the moment of filing this report.
