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Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla,has said his panel would any moment, obtain arrest warrant on Senator Hope Uzodinma, the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Imo State.
Expert seeks basic CPR skills for Nigerians Obono-Obla who said the senator would soon be declared wanted, following his evasion of the panel to answer questions over alleged fraud,said once the warrant was obtained,the politician would be declared wanted.
According to him,once he was declared wanted, he would be picked up by any law enforcement officer wherever he is sighted.
Giving an update on how his panel was handling its case with the senator, Obono-Obla, disclosed that the meeting the panel scheduled for 8pm on Tuesday at the instance of the senator could not hold as he (Uzodinma) failed to appear.
“Well,that man still didn’t honour his own words and he’s still evading arrest. We learnt he has run away to Imo State but I can assure you that we will arrest him.
“We are going to court to get a warrant of arrest so that any police officer or law enforcement officer can pick him wherever and whichever part of the country he is found,” He said.
Asked how soon the action would be effected, Obono-Obla said:”Well,I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag but we will do that very soon.”
Recall that the senator was last Sunday, arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by security men at the instance of the investigative panel. The arrest, according to the panel,was in connection with a case on alleged failure of the senator’s company to execute a contract of $12 million for the dredging of Calabar Port channel.