Good News: EFCC seizes Akpabio’s wife’s school Over Alleged N108bn fraud
A school allegedly belonging to Unoma Akpabio, the wife of the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has been seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. It was learnt that the seizure was part of investigations into the former governor who has been accused of alleged N108bn fraud during his tenure from 2007 to 2015. One of our correspondents who visited the school, St. John Paul II School, in Shelter Afrique, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, observed that the school had been marked “under investigation by EFCC.” It was learnt that the EFCC resorted to marking the school instead of shutting it so that innocent parents and students who had paid school fees would not be adversely affected. The school, it was learnt, had been under the watchful eyes of the EFCC considering the enormous amount said to have been sunk into its construction. Although normal academic activities were still ongoing in the school as of Wednesday, one of our correspondents who c...