{"id":30467,"date":"2024-05-05T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/n2-187trn-embezzlement-list-of-58-ex-govs-under-investigation-not-from-us-efcc\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T10:00:17","slug":"n2-187trn-embezzlement-list-of-58-ex-govs-under-investigation-not-from-us-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/n2-187trn-embezzlement-list-of-58-ex-govs-under-investigation-not-from-us-efcc\/","title":{"rendered":"N2.187trn embezzlement: List of 58 ex-govs under investigation not from us \u2013 EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has disassociated itself from a list of former governors being investigated for corruption.<\/p>\n<p>EFCC said the report captioned: \u201cEFCC Releases Full List of 58 Ex- Governors that Embezzled N2 .187 Trillion,\u201d is false and mischievous.<\/p>\n<p>The Head of Media and Publicity of the anti-graft agency, Dele Oyewale described the list as a disingenuous fabrication.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Oyewale said \u201cEFCC feels obliged to dissociate itself from a phantom report circulating in sections of the media claiming it has released a full list of ex- governors being investigated for alleged corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report headlined: \u201d EFCC Releases Full List of 58 Ex- Governors that Embezzled N2.187 Trillion,\u201d in one of the news outlets, is false and mischievous as the Commission neither issued the said list nor entertained discussions on investigation of ex-governors with any news medium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis invariably means that the so-called list is a disingenuous fabrication designed to achieve motives known only to the authors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public is enjoined to ignore the report as it is false and misleading.<br \/>\nThe media is advised to endeavour to crosscheck facts pertaining to matters under investigation with the Commission to avoid misleading the public with false and inaccurate reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>N2.187trn embezzlement: List of 58 ex-govs under investigation not from us \u2013 EFCC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has disassociated itself from a list of former governors being investigated for corruption.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1611,15],"tags":[1614,180],"class_list":["post-30467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-efcc","category-news","tag-efcc","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}