Confession of A\/Ibom Retired Civil Servant<\/strong><\/p>\nAccording to Iboro Etim, retired civil servant in the state, \u201cUmana Umana\u2019s financial war chest where he heavily relies upon to prosecute his 2015 governorship ambition could be traced to the looted funds he is believed to have siphoned from the state treasury during Victor Attah\u2019s administration\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Etim said that Umana\u2019s tenure as Finance boss between 2004 and 2007 saw the highest level of fraud and irresponsible budget implementation, which saw to the flop by the Attah\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
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His words: \u201cUmana was the chairman of the Inter-ministerial Direct Labour Committee, and if you ask me, show me one project they executed, I will have no response, yet billions of Naira was looted to give Victor Attah a bad name.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The former staff of the board of internal revenue bemoaned the serial squandering and embezzlement of state funds in the state during the tenure of Attah, under the watchful eyes of Umana adding that, \u201cand that is the same Attah that Umana is sponsoring a reception for at Asan Ibibio, who is the bigger fool here?\u201d<\/p>\n
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The obviously angry Ibesikpo Asutan born clerical officer concluded that in an ideal setting, Umana should be cooling off in jail, because he is morally bankrupt.<\/p>\n
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He added: \u201cLet me tell you, Umana as Finance Commissioner usually negotiated a deal with so-called contractors and pay them 80 \u2013 90% of contract sum of which he allegedly squeezed out 50%. This leaves the contractor with almost nothing to execute the project. That is why Attah left behind more abandoned projects than any government in the history of Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>OBONG <\/strong>Okon Umana, a former Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government and erstwhile Commissioner of Finance is presently fighting the \u2018battle of his life towards image redemption\u2019 regarding his stewardship in those various capacities, as Nigeria\u2019s no 1 anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has beamed its radar on this top civil servant and politician in the area of \u2018money-laundering\u2019.<\/p>\n