A Senior Special Assistant to Senator Hope Uzodinma on Print Media, Mr. Modestus Nwamkpa, have revealed the reason former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha was released from EFCC detention.
This is contained in a post he published on Facebook, which reads as follows:
REASONS WHY OKOROCHA WAS RELEASED THIS EVENING.
HIS RELEASE CAME AFTER MUCH PLEADINGS AND PROMISES.
… HE WAS RELEASED BASED ON ILL HEALTH COUPLED WITH JUSUN NATIONWIDE STRIKE
By Nwamkpa Modestus (KSM)
The former Governor of Imo state Sen Rochas Okorocha this evening around 5 pm was allowed to go home from the EFCC cell where he spent 48 honour plus after his arrest on Tuesday. Consequently, his followers and supporters have gone berserk and have been jubilating over this. Well, It is normal and nobody should blame them. Although, they should have been sober and remorseful for obvious reasons. They made it look as though the former Governor was a super man. No, it is not true and that is why I felt like letting them know the true position of things as regards his release based on my findings.
However, many of them do not know why the ex Governor was released this evening. Again, some of them are not even aware the conditions attached to the release.
In the first place, EFCC is not a permanent abode for anybody. So there is no big deal that one was arrested and later got released. EFCC arrest is just like normal police arrest. Once police arrests you, they will take your statement, investigates you and thereafter charge you to court or get you released on bail. That is just that
Now, in the case of Okorocha, immediately he was arrested, he cried out to some of his friends across the country for assistance. They came and pleaded to the anti graft agency for leniency for him on the grounds of ill health. The said the ex Governor is on drugs. Again, the anti graft Agency reasoned that since the Judiciary staff Union of Nigeria ( JUSUN) workers are on strike over their demand for autonomy for the Judiciary and since nobody knows when it will last, it will finitely hinder the arraignment of the ex Governor and ultimately prolong his stay at EFCC custody. The Agency felt with that, it may infringe on his foundamental human right since there is a stipulated time that EFCC can constitutionally keep a suspect in their custody.
So based on these, he was released on self recognition pending when JUSUN calls off their strike and Court resumes. By that time, his arraignment can then take place. So in effect, his release today was circumstantial.
The ex Governor on his own made a promise to comport himself honourable pending when his prosecution begins. He made pleading and gave assurances not to misbehave within the time being. So, I felt like informing you about this. They extracted that commitment from him before a serving Governor from the South South, a Northern Emir and a former Senator from the North who stood in as sureties..
My name is Nwamkpa Modestus and I approved of this information.
