A cewar majiyoyi daga hukumar EFCC, ana zargin Okowa da karkatar da kudaden zuwa sayen kadarori a Abuja da Asaba a Jihar Delta.

Kakakin EFCC, Dele Oyewale, ya tabbatar da cafke Okowa ga manema labarai a daren Litinin. An kama shi bayan da ya amsa gayyatar hukumar a ofishin EFCC da ke garin Fatakwal, jihar Ribas.

Hukumar tana gudanar da bincike kan zargin karkatar da naira biliyan 40 da aka yi amfani da su wajen siyan hannun jari a kamfanin sarrafa iskar gas na UTM Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) don kafa hannun jari mai tsoka.

Wannan zargi na zuwa ne bayan Okowa ya tsaya takarar mataimakin shugaban kasa a karkashin jam’iyyar PDP tare da dan takararsu, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a zaben 2023.

Ana zargin tsohon gwamna Ifeanyi Okowa da karkatar da kaso daga cikin kudin Naira tiriliyan 1.3 da aka warewa jihar Delta a matsayin rabon kaso na 13% daga kudin harajin albarkatun man fetur na kasar. Wannan rabon kaso yana nufin kudaden da aka ware wa jihohi domin ci gaba da bunkasa yankunansu bisa dogaro da albarkatun kasa. Kudin an ce an karkatar da wani bangare zuwa sayen kadarori da zuba jari a wasu manyan bankunan Najeriya da nufin kafa hannun jari na LNG a waje.

"Jimillar kudade da suka kai tiriliyan naira (₦) galibi na nufin kudaden kasafi ko kason jiha wanda zai iya taimakawa wajen ci gaban ayyukan raya kasa, shirye-shiryen jin dadin jama’a, ko ayyukan more rayuwa idan aka sarrafa su yadda ya kamata."