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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has seized a school allegedly belonging to Unoma Akpabio, wife of former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio.
TheNewsGuru.com repoprts 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.
The school, St. John Paul II School, in Shelter Afrique, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, had been marked “under investigation by EFCC.”
According to a report by The Punch, 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.
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 called at the school observed that a police van was stationed outside the gate.
A senior employee of the school, who refused to disclose his identity, only asked one of our correspondents to observe the ambience around the school.
He added that he was not capable to comment on any development relating to the EFCC and the school’s proprietor.
According to him, the school is serene with normal academic activities taking place.
Confirming the seizure, a senior operative at the commission said: “I understand our operatives were recently in Akwa Ibom and did mark a school as ‘under investigation.’”