Senator Stella Oduah, representing Anambra North Senatorial District, has finally opened up on the alleged stashing of N2.5 billion in a bank account she opened using the identity of her domestic aide.
Oduah, in a statement on Monday, July 4, denied that she was being tracked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as being circulated in media outlets.
The former Aviation Minister, through her Head of Communications, Francisca Onyeisi, said she had received the reports while relaxing in her country home in Ogbaru, Anambra State.
She therefore, challenged publishers of the allegations to validate proofs that she was guilty of the said report.
Recall, that SaharaReporters had claimed that EFCC sources revealed to it, how Oduah used the identity of an unnamed maid to set up a suspicious account, adding that she apparently opened the account with her housemaid’s consent.
However, inher reaction, Senator Oduah described the allegations as “totally false, baseless and at best the imagination of the publishers”.
The ex-Minister added: “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”.
She 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”.
Recall, that Oduah was earlier removed from office as Minister under former President, Goodluck Jonathan, in February 2014, after she was found to have received armored BMW cars, worth N255 million, from an aviation agency.
The Senator has been severally accused of fraud and abuse of public office, especially while in office as Minister, but is yet to be convicted of any.
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