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Personal lawyer of the immediate past governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke, says that the companies, institutions and property which operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided in Enugu, last week, do not belong to his client as being presented.
Personal lawyer of the immediate past governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke, says that the companies, institutions and property which operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided in Enugu, last week, do not belong to his client as being presented.
According to the lawyer, Hon Ifeanyi Nwoga, in a press statement released at the weekend, the effort being made by the EFCC to link Nnamani to the companies was a deliberate attempt to embarrass the ex-governor.
The EFCC had invaded the premises of Rainbownet Nigeria Limited, Renaissance University, Mea Matter Elizabeth High School, Cosmo FM, Renaissance Hospital, Capital City Automobiles Limited, in an attempt to take them over in enforcement of court order.
Nwoga, however, said the companies were not Nnamani's, adding that the details of the ownership and management of the companies are with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
He said Nnamani was not a member of the board of directors of any of the companies, urging the media to crosscheck that fact.
The statement read: 'We take notice, once again, of the frenzy in imputing ownership and control of certain businesses, institutions and property on the person of the former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani.
'We notice the frenzy with which this is pushed in the mass media, purporting that the former governor, who is now a senator of the federal republic, has been dispossessed of his property in a raid and seizure reportedly carried out by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
'For the avoidance of doubt, for the umpteenth time, we state, and without equivocation, that such business concerns and institutions, viz, Rainbownet Nigeria Limited, Renaissance University, Mea Matter Elizabeth High School, as well as some listed property in and around Enugu do not belong to former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani.
'For clarity, we stand to be quoted on these:
• The raging frenzy as reported in the mass media are mere stage acts of persons and groups seeking to embarrass former Governor Nnamani;
• The ownership and control of the businesses and institutions are listed in the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, register for every interested, especially the more thorough person, to inspect;
• Chimaroke Nnamani is not a member of board of the any of these and is not listed as an investor in any of these businesses and institutions;
• The matters of these businesses and institutions are currently subjects of court disputation and so the question of seizure and closure cannot arise;
• We had expected respected media institutions to wait for the resolution of the matters in court, as true believers in rule of law and not to rush to conclusion in ways that may even be prejudicial and injurious to the court processes;
• We believe in rule of law, due process and so subscribe to persons and groups waiting for the course of justice to run to its end before being sucked into the rashness and fitfulness of persons who are yet to appreciate the prevalence of democracy; and,
• We urge the media to be more circumspect and to take some of these dutiful lawlessness with a pinch of the salt, bearing in mind that these may be an extension of the pull-him-down, (phd), syndrome, of which schemes of embarrassing and tarnishing the image of a person may well be hidden."