From Chuks Collins, Awka
THE Anambra State government has again distanced itself from the intercepted N250 million allegedly found in one of the vehicles on the governor's convoy in Lagos by the Police on Sunday.
In a spirited explanation yesterday at a media briefing in Awka, Commissioner for Information and Culture, Maja Umeh, noted that contrary to some media reports Governor Peter Obi was attending to official businesses in Abuja on Monday and Tuesday when the news broke.
Umeh stressed that Obi was not in Lagos when the incident occurred.
He added that the contractor "was on a legal contract with the state government and paid for the contract following due process."
The commissioner surmised that the owner of the money hitchhiked the three-car convoy, which went to Lagos for routine maintenance servicing.
Umeh argued that joining the convoy was strictly the man's personal decision, which he could have worked out in private with the convoy's drivers.
His words: "All the necessary papers were demanded for and were quickly tendered by the contractor to police. The state government has no hands in it and there was no arms or ammunition found on him either."
Umeh, who fielded questions from reporters alongside Chief Press Secretary to the Governor. Mike Udah, thanked the reporters present at the event for first seeking official clarifications over the matter.
It would be recalled that the state Assembly had during the week set up an ad hoc panel to probe the development.
Obi has also written the Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, to investigate the matter so as to expose those he described as the "political jobbers" behind it.
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