The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that the embattled former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, is still under the custody of the agency.<\/p>\n
The agency said the senator will be released after meeting his bail conditions as ordered by the court.<\/span><\/p>\n EFCC\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Wilson Uwujaren, made this known in an interview with The PUNCH.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFormer Governor Rochas Okorocha is still under protective custody of the EFCC pending when he meets his bail conditions as ordered by the court.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not holding back to let him go, but there are procedures for bail, and he has to meets the required procedures as stated by the judge in court today,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n However, one of the former governor\u2019s legal counsel, Steve Asimobi, told our correspondent that Okorocha would be attending the ongoing screening exercise of presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress later today in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n Asimobi said, \u201cHis Excellency, Rochas Okorocha would be attending the APC presidential screening later today. The court has granted him bail. Of course there were two options, either to remand him in Kuje prison or the EFCC custody pending when we meet the bail condition. Hence the judge asked the EFCC to keep him in protective custody, and that is a usual administrative procedure. The judge also ordered the EFCC to return his international passport to the court today with immediate effect.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAs I speak to you, the sureties required are currently in court with all the requirements, and they\u2019re processing it. So, once we\u2019re gone with these, the judge would order the EFCC to release him. He\u2019s only under the protective custody of the EFCC based on the directive of the court.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that the embattled former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, is still under the custody of the agency. The agency said the senator will be released after meeting his bail conditions as ordered by the court. EFCC\u2019s Public Relations Officer, Wilson Uwujaren, made this known in an interview […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5037,73,4937,2033],"class_list":["post-8582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bail-conditions","tag-fraud","tag-presidential-screening","tag-rochas-okorocha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8584,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions\/8584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}