CLO Petitions EFCC Over Alleged Fraud In UNN

Members of Civil Liber
ties Organisation (CLO), South East Zone have petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to investigate the alleged massive embezzlement and other forms of corruption perpetrated by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, (UNN), Nsukka, Enugu State Professor Bartholomew Okolo.
Copies of the petition which was signed by the Zonal Director of CLO, Barrister Olu Omotayo, was also made available to newsmen in Enugu.
According to them, “the Vice Chancellor swindled the University funds running into billions of naira by awarding contracts to five non existing companies such as Enwerem and Sons Enterprises, Ottamo Trading Company, Ozetech Metal Construction, Noble Tech Aluminum Industry, and Chronicle Computers and Communications”.
Their words: “It is unheard of, anywhere in the world that a Vice Chancellor of a university will award contracts running into billions of naira to non existing companies. Our Findings at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), show that these five companies are not registered companies in Nigeria”.
“They are non-existent and are mere phantom companies through which the Vice Chancellor swindled billions of naira. Apart from this, another medium through which Professor Bartho Okolo perpetrated massive fraud is the deduction at source of N2,000.00 from the salaries of all the staff of the university without their consent as internet charges”.
“ Each staff pays the sum of N24, 000.00 annually while students are made to pay N18, 000 for the so called internet services, and these moneys are paid to unknown bank account and diverted by the Vice Chancellor”.
Continuing, the aggrieved CLO members said “It is our belief that the EFCC will not shirk away in its responsibility and ensure that justice is done in respect of this matter. We demand an urgent and thorough investigation and urge the Commission to leave no stone unturned to ensure that justice is done in respect of this matter as the circumstance of this case demands”, they further pleaded.