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F ormer  Ebonyi State governor, Chief Martins Elechi, yesterday on the second day of his questioning in Abuja, faced more than eight hours of rigorous grilling in the hands of  operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged laundering of state funds. The former governor arrived the EFCC headquarters at 10am and faced his interrogators until 4pm when he was asked to go and return on a date next week. A source at the commission confirmed to Vanguard that the politician might be charged to court based on the evidence adduced by his interrogators and those earlier gathered from some top officials who served under his government. The questioning of the governor had to do with a number of deals said to have been carried out during his tenure for which concerned natives of the state petitioned the anti-graft agency and demanded for probe. Among the issues for which he was summoned were the alleged theft of millions of Naira in the asphalt plant ...

The Deputy Governor of Ebonyi Dr. Kelechi Igwe yesterday said the government is in a hurry to transform and modernize Ebonyi state so that it will compete favourably with other states in the country. The Deputy Governor gave the assurance in Abakaliki after receiving eight trucks and one pay-loader donated from three different construction companies to assist the state government in its drive in the environmental sanitation of the capital city. The companies are Brass Engineering Company Limited which donated two trucks, Patan Limited , four trucks and a pay loader and China Civil Engineering Construction Company(CCECC), two trucks. Dr Igwe thanked the companies for their assistance to help the government to make the state clean encouraging other individuals, groups and cooperate bodies to live up to their expectations by contributing their quotas in the development of the state. The deputy governor noted that the administration led by Chief Dave Umahi has declared a state...

The Ebonyi State House of Assembly, during its first sitting, yesterday, passed a resolution withdrawing the 2O15 budget proposal sent to it by the immediate past governor, Martin Elechi. The request for budget withdrawal was sent to the House by the state governor, Dave Umahi, and described as being for the overall interest of the state. Moving the motion, Leader of the House, Hon. Joseph Nwobasi, representing Ezza North East Constituency, stressed that it became necessary to approve the request because the Commissioners of the past government refused to honour invitations for budget defense. The house also approved the request by the governor, Dave Umahi, which sought for the appointment of six senior advisers. Meanwhile, All the General Managers of various corporations and Heads of parastatals in Ebony state were, recently, sacked by the state government. The government has also dissolved 11 boards and parastatals. The boards dissolved are the Ebonyi State Broadcast...