Vivian Igwe Is Not Our Staff – EBSG

The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Boarder Peace, Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha yesterday denied the alleged media reports that one Miss Igwe Vivian who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, over involvement in seventeen Million naira (N17,000,000) fraudulent transaction is a staff of the Protocol Unit of the Ebonyi State Government House, Abakaliki

The Commissioner in a press briefing in Abakaliki described the report as false noting that the said Igwe Vivan is not a staff in the Protocol unit of the government house, Abakaliki, adding that she is neither a civil servant nor in any way on the payroll of the state government but a mere messenger who comes around to help staff of the Protocol units.

In his word; “The girl in question as regard to a staff of government house who was allegedly involved in N17 million illegal transaction is not a staff of government house.

“She is just a casual messenger to one office, especially the former D.O.P. she is not in anyway a staff of any ministry. And we wouldn’t want to go into detail of how she came about the N17 million in her account. But all we know is that the security agencies are already on top of the matter.

“And we know that at the end of the investigation, they will come up with the better information and knowledge of how the money entered into the girl’s account.

“ In my own interrogation, I asked the girl who gave her the money? She said, she is not aware that such money entered her account. I equally asked her, whether she gave her account number to any person. she said, a family friend who lived in Lagos demanded of her account number last March, who later sent her N2500.

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“The truth remains that, if she has hand in it, she will go in for it. The true position of the government is that, she is not a staff of any Ministry nor a staff of Protocol department government house”.

Recall that on Tuesday, there was a reports that Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFFC) has arrested one Miss Vivian Igwe, a staff of the Protocol Unit of the Ebonyi State Government House, Abakaliki, over alleged Seventeen Million naira(#17,000,000) fraudulent transactions.

The suspect who is about 25 years old was earlier arrested on Monday by men of the Special Anti- Robbery Squared (SARS) from the Area Command Abakaliki, at the Ezza Road branch of Ecobank in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, when she went to make a withdrawal.

The funds was said to had been transferred into her account by an unknown person about three weeks ago.