{"id":5637,"date":"2019-08-10T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2019-08-10T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T17:29:12","slug":"my-true-story-i-have-no-link-with-n9-9billion-fraud-discovered-by-efcc-i-have-nothing-to-hide-former-lagos-state-governor-akinwunmi-ambode-none-of-my-personal-bank-accounts-are-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/my-true-story-i-have-no-link-with-n9-9billion-fraud-discovered-by-efcc-i-have-nothing-to-hide-former-lagos-state-governor-akinwunmi-ambode-none-of-my-personal-bank-accounts-are-li\/","title":{"rendered":"MY TRUE STORY: ‘I Have no link with N9.9billion Fraud discovered by EFCC, I Have Nothing to Hide’ -former Lagos State Governor, AKINWUNMI AMBODE \u2026.None of my personal bank accounts are listed or frozen by anti-graft agency *Says: ‘Account frozen by the Federal High Court belong to the Lagos State Government and not me or any individual. In the spirit of Sallah and having served Lagos State well, my record was clear’ * ‘HE Akinwunmi Ambode wanted to clear his name. He will not allow any one or institution to ruin his hard-earned reputation. He has no business with EFCC. Those accounts were opened in the course of normal operations by the Lagos State Government for its administrative purposes and not for the former governor\u2019s personal transactions as was being wrongly insinuated and have been operated to ensure smooth operations of government activities by previous and present administrations’-Habib Aruna, Media aide BY FEMI OMILADE\/SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, LAGOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MY TRUE STORY:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘I\nHave no link with N9.9billion Fraud discovered by EFCC, I Have\nNothing to Hide’ -former Lagos State Governor, AKINWUNMI\nAMBODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026.None of\nmy personal bank accounts are listed or frozen by anti-graft agency<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Says:\n‘Account frozen by the Federal High Court belong to the Lagos State\nGovernment and not me or any individual. In the spirit of Sallah and\nhaving served Lagos State well, my record was clear’<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

* ‘HE Akinwunmi Ambode \nwanted to clear his name. He will not allow any one or institution to\nruin his hard-earned reputation. He has no business with EFCC. Those\naccounts were opened in the course of normal operations by the Lagos\nState Government for its administrative purposes and not for the\nformer governor\u2019s personal transactions as was being wrongly\ninsinuated and have been operated to ensure smooth operations of\ngovernment activities by previous and present administrations’-Habib\nAruna, Media aide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY FEMI OMILADE\/SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, LAGOS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FORMER LAGOS STATE\nGOVERNOR, AKINWUNMI AMBODE has dissociated himself away from the\nalleged statement made by Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption agency,\nEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, stating that he has\nno business link whatsoever with the N9.9billion claimed by the law\nenforcement body to have been traced to some bank accounts of the\nstate. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambode said none of his\naccounts contained N9.9bn let alone being frozen by the EFCC. He said\nin the spirit of Sallah and having served Lagos State well, his\nrecord was clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Friday by\nhis media aide, Habib Aruna, Ambode said he did not intend to join\nissues with the anti-corruption agency as there had not been any\ncommunication between him and the commission on the issue. He added\nthat he, however, wanted to clear his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the former\ngovernor, the accounts frozen by the Federal High Court belong to the\nLagos State Government and not him or any individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His words: \u201c<\/strong>Those\naccounts were opened in the course of normal operations by the Lagos\nState Government for its administrative purposes and not for the\nformer governor\u2019s personal transactions as was being wrongly\ninsinuated and have been operated to ensure smooth operations of\ngovernment activities by previous and present administrations. The\nformer governor was not and will never be involved in any\nunauthorized use of government property and resources.\u201cWe\nstrongly believe that after four demanding years as Chief Executive\nof Lagos State, Mr. Ambode is entitled to some deserved rest with his\nfamily and loved ones without the unwarranted attacks on his\nwell-earned reputation,\u201d the statement said. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MY TRUE STORY: ‘I Have no link with N9.9billion Fraud discovered by EFCC, I Have Nothing to Hide’ -former Lagos State Governor, AKINWUNMI AMBODE \u2026.None of my personal bank accounts are listed or frozen by anti-graft agency *Says: ‘Account frozen by the Federal High Court belong to the Lagos State Government and not me or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[129,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-5637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-nigeria-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}