Stella Oduah, a former Minister of Aviation and now senator
(PDP-Anambra North), on Monday denied reports that the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission was on her trail for allegedly stashing
nearly N2.5 billion in a bank account she set up using the identity of
her domestic aide.
Ms. Oduah, who said she received the reports while relaxing in her
country home in Anambra State, challenged those who published the
allegations to publish proofs that substantiate her guilt.
News website, SaharaReporters, had on Sunday reported EFCC sources as
revealing to it how Ms. Oduah used the name and pictures of the unnamed
maid to set up the account.
“Senator Oduah apparently opened the account with her housemaid’s
name, image, and details without the housemaid knowing about it,” Sahara
Reporters quoted one of the EFCC sources as saying.
The account, the report said, was still active as at last week.
But in a rebuttal her office sent to PREMIUM TIMES around 9 a.m.
Monday, Ms. Oduah said the reports were “totally false, baseless and at
best the imagination of the platform.”
In the statement, signed by Francisca Onyeisi, head of
communications, Ms. Oduah said that if the reports were true, she 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.”
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.”
Former Minister Stella Oduah responds to allegation she stole and hid N2.5billion using maid’s account
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