The Chairman of the Presidential Special Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, who was earlier suspended by the presidency, has fired back saying that he's going nowhere!
The special adviser to President Buhari on prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, who was on Sunday,
suspended by the federal government as Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, has fought back claiming that he had not been removed from his post and asked the public to disregard his purported sack.
In a statement by his Assistant Director of Press, Lucieann Laha, Obla dismissed as untrue, the claim that he had been removed as the chairman of the Presidential Special Panel on Recovery of Public Property.
The statement said: “The attention of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property has been drawn to a purported news in the media that the Chairman of the Panel, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has been removed.
“While there is a letter from the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, based on a purported letter from the Office of the Vice President to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister for Justice drawing attention to certain procedural issues, and which an appropriate response is being prepared, there is no iota of truth in the purported removal of the Chairman of the Panel.
“For the avoidance of doubt, there is no such directive from the Presidency to the Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property relieving him of his office and the information purportedly removing the Chairman should be disregarded.”