Operatives of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested
Ibanga Ime Akpabio, cousin to the former
Akwa Ibom Governor Godswill Akpabio for his
involvement in a N10 million oil scam.
He was arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,
said the EFCC in a statement.
Akpabio’s arrest was occasioned by an
allegation that he collected a sum of N10
million from a potential investor in petroleum
products.
Specifically, Akpabio reportedly approached
the investor to invest the money as equity in
the purchase of petroleum product directly
from a floating station belonging to the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,
NNPC.
The EFCC said he allegedly assured the
inventor that he had secured all necessary
approvals for the running of the business.
According to the EFCC, Akpabio allegedly
collected the money through a Diamond
Account being operated by Fastej Enterprises
and that he neither kept faith with the
business arrangements with the investor nor
returned his money to him.
He is urgently undergoing interrogation in the
Port Harcourt’s Zonal office of the EFCC.
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