N22bn Paris Refund, N27bn World Bank intervention Investigation: Lawmaker raises alarm over threat to life 

The member representing Aba South Constituency in Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Obinna Ichita has cried out that his disposition in the House Ad Hoc Committee investigating the N22bn Paris Refund, and the N27bn World Bank intervention had placed his life under threat.

In a press release he signed, the lawmaker informed the general public his life had “come under a serious threat”, pointing out that the relevant security and intelligence agencies have been notified. 

Briefing newsmen later, he disclosed that the Office of the National Security Adviser and the Headquarters of the AU Committee on Intelligence and Security Services had been furnished with details of the threat. 

Also, “The Heads of Diplomatic Missions of European countries in Nigeria, The European Union, The US Embassy and the UK High Commission have all been alerted.”

According to him, “The need for a thorough investigation by the appropriate superior authorities is accentuated by the plans of some persons/ quarters to hide under the shadow of insecurity in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria to perpetrate heinous crimes in the hope that culpability for such crimes would be placed on the doorsteps of “unknown gunmen”.

“I want to restate that no amount of threat would deplete my belief in accountability in the use of public funds, especially as it relates to the over 27 billion Naira World Bank intervention for flood control and construction of major roads in Aba South through NEWMAP, which money has been paid in full by the World Bank to the State Government,” Hon. Ichita said. 

He said, “as a member of the Abia House of Assembly especially as it relates to the Ad hoc Committee investigating the allegations/ controversies surrounding the 22 billion naira  Paris Club refund to the state government will continue to be discharged without any fear of intimidation from any quarter.”

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