- Senator Hope Uzodinma has been granted bail by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property (SPIPRPP)
- The APC Imo governorship candidate was allowed on bail on health ground and upon his promise to report back after a meeting with his doctor
- Uzodinma is being investigated over his company’s alleged failure to execute a contract of $12 million
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo state, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has been granted bail by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property (SPIPRPP), The Nation reports.
Legit.ng gathered that a source at the SPIPRPP said Uzodimma was allowed on bail on health ground and upon his promise to report back Tuesday, November 13, after a meeting with his doctor.
A senior official of the SPIPRPP on Monday, November 13, said that Uzodinma was released on “bail last night (Sunday nght) on humanitarian ground and asked him to report back today (Monday) at 10am.
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“When he did not come, my operatives laid siege in his residence. Then, he later pleaded with us to allow him see his doctor and report tomorrow (Tuesday).
The Imo state governorship candidate is also linked with other cases, including a case over his alleged failure to disclose his assets, as reflected in a two count charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/107/2018, now pending before Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Uzodimma and his firms are equally involved in a pending criminal case before the Upper Area Court, Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja.
The case was initiated via a criminal complaint filed by a company, and its promoter, who claimed that the Senator issued them a N200 million UBA dud (bounced cheque).
The promoter stated that Uzodinma sub-contracted to his company, a shoreline protection project in Koko, Delta State, which he (Uzodinma) allegedly got from the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and that the dud cheque was intended as payment their successful execution of the project.
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Legit.ng previously reported that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo state, Hope Uzodinma, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Sunday, November 8, over an alleged breach of contract worth $12m.
The Special Presidential Investigation Panel For Recovery of Public Property said its operatives arrested Uzodinma, the senator representing Imo West senatorial district, for a breach of contract after his company allegedly failed to execute a contract of $12m for the dredging of Calabar channel.
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