Former Minister of Aviation and Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District, Sen. Stella Oduah said on Monday that her attention has been drawn to another malicious and fictitious rumour by online reports that Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have discovered the sum of N2.5 Billion Naira in an account opened in the name of unnamed housemaid of hers.
Oduah in a statement issued by her Head of Communications, Francisca Onyeisi, said she received the reports while relaxing in her country home in Ogbaru, Anambra State.
The senator thus said she challenged the publishers of the allegations to validate it with proofs that she was guilty.
An online news website, based in the US had yesterday, reported that EFCC sources revealed to it, how Ms. Oduah used the name and pictures of the unnamed maid to set up the account, adding that she apparently opened the account with her housemaid’s name, image, and details without the housemaid’s knowledge.
But Obuah said the allegation is totally false, baseless and at best the imagination of the platform who is only set out to extort and blackmail leaders in its continuous attempt by their paymasters to break the rank of Senators of the 8th Assembly.
“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 said.
The former minister, 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.”
When she was in charge of the aviation ministry, Oduah was removed from office in February 2014 after she was found to have received armoured BMW cars, worth N255million, from an agency she supervised.
