Kingsley Kuku Debunks Account Freezing Report, Calls It The Anti-Jonathan Onslaught

Kingsley Kuku, former president Goodluck Jonathan’s special adviser on Niger Delta and the chairman of the Amnesty Programme, has reacted to the reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) froze the account of his charity organisation, Keketobou Care Foundation.

Kingsley Kuku

In a telephone interview with Daily Times, Kuku stressed that there were no public funds in the charity account of his organization, which helps indigent people.

The former aide, who is now recuperating after a knee surgery in a hospital in the United States, revealed that the foundation has only N720,484 as balance today.

“The proceeds of my published and launched book “Remaking the Niger Delta” went in there for charity purposes as a public officer,” he added.

Kuku noted that he had used his personal earnings and other donations by well-wishers to provide enough funds for buying JAMB forms for poor indigenes of Ondo state and support poor widows, women and traders in the state.

“It gave free JAMB forms to applicants, financial and material support to the aged, widows and the physically challenged and helped in the local rehabilitation of walkways and drainages in my birth-place/town, Arogbo, Ondo state, in the determined spirit to give back to my final place of return in life,” he said.

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According to him, the attempt by the EFCC or any other anti-craft agency to flag the account is a politically motivated move to implicate him and others who worked in Jonathan’s team.

“The publication is false, untrue, malicious and politically motivated to smear my hard-earned reputation. What on earth links my face to the alleged story about NIMASA?

“It is still all part of the anti-Jonathan onslaught. I am open to investigation as a public officer but ongoing distortion by agencies and some section of the media creates in the heart of it all suspicion of witch-hunt and bad politics.

“I hope no desperate elements would deposit illicit funds into the foundation’s account to implicate me because the full details of the account from opening to date are with us.

“Again, what links this foundation to their so-called alleged sleaze of billions and phantom security claims? I sincerely smell a rat. Finally, it’s not my account but a foundation’s account,” Kuku claimed.

Two days earlier, the EFCC froze the accounts of two companies reportedly owned by the ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Chief Government Ekpompolo.

The two companies, Mieka Divers Limited and Global West Vessels Limited, are allegedly linked with fraudulent activity in the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) under its ex-director general, Patrick Akpobolokemi.

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