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Oduah denies N2.5bn in domestic aide’s account

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Stella Oduah in trouble again, as court freezes 21 accounts

Former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah has refuted reports that she stashed N2.5bilion in a bank account she opened with the name of her maid and that the EFCC has been trailing her for the said offence.

Oduah, who is presently representing Anambra North Senatorial District, at the Senate stated this on Monday in a statement through her Head of Communications, Francisca Onyeisi, she said she received the reports in her home in Ogbaru, Anambra State.

She has called on the publishers of the alleged offence to come up with proofs as an evidence that she was guilty.

Oduah is reacting to an online report which wrote that EFCC sources revealed to it how Ms. Oduah opened a bank account with the name and pictures of her unnamed maid and stashed N2.5 billion in the said account without the housemaid’s knowledge.

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But Oduah this Monday descibed the allegations as not only “totally false” but also “baseless and at best the imagination of the publishers.”

According to her, “If the reports were true, I would have been arrested long before now, especially at a time when the EFCC is freezing accounts and going after opposition governors who enjoy same level of immunity as the president.”

While she urged the public to disregard the reports, the former minister, posited that before ever venturing into politics, that she has “made a mark in oil and gas and Agricultural businesses.”

She was removed from office in February 2014, after public outcry against her purchased of armoured BMW cars, worth N255million, from an agency she supervised.

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