***Says, he wasn’t questioned or detained
Godswill Akpabio
By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has dismissed a news report in an online media (not Vanguard) that he was on Wednesday detained and questioned by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, after an attempt to bribe its chairman with $350,000.
Akpabio in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Anietie Ekong, on Saturday in Abuja said he was the one who sought an audience with the anti-graft agency boss on issues bordering on the transfer of funds belonging to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in respect of the 3% statutory remittances from Oil and Gas Companies in the custody of the EFCC.