Blank NEWS Online can reveal that officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has on Wednesday, May 07, 2014 swooped on the Director General of Direct Labour Agency (DLA), Mr. Emmanuel Edafe Igbini, in Asaba.
The anti-graft team who were said to have stormed the office in Asaba in the early hours of Wednesday, had also on Tuesday been led by Igbini to Agbarho to ascertain whether his claims of purchase of earth moving and road construction equipment were true or not.
Recall that the embattled DG of the Delta state owned construction intervention outfit, Direct Labour Agency (DLA), Mr. Igbini has been grappling with alleged multiple and gross financial misappropriation.
Igbini, who has been grilled by officials of the anti-graft agency in Port-Harcourt was reportedly swooped upon by EFCC officials on Tuesday and Wednesday, after he failed to defend sundry claims of stealing government money worth over N3.7 Billion for intervention on 157 state roads.
It could be recalled that the EFCC had in their letter dated September 27, 2013 requested for the income and expenditure registers of DLA, proposed and approved budget since 2011 till date, all approvals directed for payment made by the agency (DLA) from 2011 till date, in a tabular form -list of all the contractors, contracts, Direct Labour jobs and equipment procured since inception of his (Igbini) administration till date, all LPOs approved since your assumption of office, mode of payment, amount paid, payment vouchers, copies of cheques if any, and Auditor’s report.
Blank NEWS Online has also learnt that the EFCC had earlier sucessfully obtained vital financial documents from the Delta state Accountant General‘s office in Asaba and some quoted banks in regard to Igbini’s sundry fraudulent acts.
Meanwhile, the state and chapter leadership of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical And Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) who had picketed the offices of the Direct Labour Agency (DLA) in Asaba had also accused the Director General, Mr. Emmanuel Edafe Igbini of fraud and appealed to the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan to urgently sack him.
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