The Ex-Katsina Governor who was declared wanted on Wednesday has slammed the anti-graft agent and declared that He is not on the run.
Shema said he had to cancel his trip to Saudi Arabia to honour the anti-graft agency’s invitation in June 2016.
He
said when he got to the EFCC office, he was told that the officer
handling his case was not around, adding that the anti-graft agency did
not re-schedule.
The EFCC declared the former Katsina Governor wanted on Wednesday, September 14, 2016, for allegedly diverting state funds.
Shema also accused the current Governor of Katsina state, Bello Masari, of using the anti-graft agency to hound him.
He said “As
a senior citizen of this country, a legal practitioner of 32 years
post-call experience, and a two-time Governor of Katsina State, I not
only feel seriously embarrassed, disturbed, surprised and confounded by
the report sponsored by EFCC, but also feel sorry for our dear country.
“I
feel sorry for the pitiable situation we have found ourselves as
Nigerians where and when a sacred institution like the EFCC is
pressurised and used to sponsor fake, false, malicious, misleading and
unfounded allegations against someone like me, who the EFCC has not at
any time accused of fraud, embezzlement, inflation of contract, or any
misdemeanour at all.
“The EFCC
deliberately embarked on false propaganda against me and my person by
positing that I have ignored several invitations which it extended to
me.”
In a letter to the EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, Shema said “Without
any formal invitation to me, the EFCC purported, by a letter dated June
17, 2016, sent to a wrong address of Wole Olanipekun & Co. asking
the law firm to make Dr. Ibrahim Shehu Shema available for an interview
with the undersigned on Tuesday, June 28, 2016.The letter was signed by
Hyecinth A. Edozie.
“Despite
the incongruity in the way and manner the invitation was extended to me
through a counsel – and also through a wrong address of the same
counsel, and notwithstanding the fact that I was already billed to
travel to Saudi Arabia for the lesser hajj (Umrah) on the appointment
day, I cancelled all the engagements to honour the invitation with my
counsel on the said June 28, 2016, only to be informed, around 10am on
that day that the interview would no longer hold, as Mr. Hyecinth A.
Edozie was out of Abuja, and that a new date, after Sallah, would be
communicated.”
Alhaji Ibrahim Shema was the Governor of Katsina state from 2007 to 2015.
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