EFCC seals Dickson’s ex-aide’s building in Bayelsa

 

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have sealed off buildings and other property allegedly belonging to Mr. Apere Embelakpo, a former aide of Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson.

Investigation on Saturday revealed that a building said to be owned by Embelakpo on Azikoro Road, Yenagoa, was taken over by the EFCC.

It was, however, noticed that some unidentified youths were still occupying a section of the building.

The youths, when they discovered our correspondent was trying to take pictures of the building threw stones at him.

It was also noticed that sets of exotic shopping complexes and malls allegedly acquired by Dickson’s former Special Assistant on Millennium Development Goals at the Kpansia Market along the Isaac Boro Expressway were also sealed off by the officials of the anti-graft agency.

Sources said the EFCC operatives, provided cover by some mobile policemen, had stormed Yenagoa, the state capital, on Tuesday in search of assets allegedly acquired by the former aide with the MDG funds.

An inscription, “Property under EFCC investigation, keep off”, was written on the fences and gates of some of the buildings.

Embelakpo is being investigated by the EFCC for allegedly diverting N800m meant for MDG programmes and projects in Bayelsa State.

His wife is also being probed by the anti-graft agency for alleged offences of money laundering, forgery and suspicious transactions amounting to N200m.

The EFCC had earlier nabbed a former Senior Special Assistant on Media to Dickson, Abnedgo Don- Evarada, in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, for allegedly offering a bribe of N10m to the EFCC’s Zonal Head in Port- Harcourt, Mr. Ishaq Salihu.

Don-Evarada reportedly ran into trouble when he allegedly approached Salihu over the case involving Embelakpo and his spouse, Beauty.

source....punch