A former Director of Particular Duties in Senator Godswill Akpabio’s 2023 marketing campaign council, Zion Umoh has refuted allegations of fraudulently attempting to acquire cash from the US Company for Worldwide Growth, USAID.
The allegations in opposition to Umoh have consequently led to a confrontation with the workplace of the Senate President, over the controversial letter looking for improvement funds from USAID.
The alleged letter dated November 13, 2023, addressed to the USAID Mission Director in Abuja, was requesting the sum of N700 million from the US company, allegedly for instructional tasks and programmes in Akwa Ibom Northwest, Ikot Ekpene, senatorial district, which is the Senate Presidents native district.
A senior legislative aide to the Senate President, Mfon Patrick had accused Zion Umoh of posing because the director of particular duties to the Senate President to write down the letter, saying it’s a clear case of impersonation and fraud.
Nevertheless, Umoh, who had labored because the Director of Particular Duties for Akpabio previously denied the allegations, insisting he didn’t write the letter to USAID.
He claimed that the plan had been hatched to defame his character earlier than the Senate President and members of the general public
He defined, “Arch Ubokutom Nyah was the Marketing campaign Director Common for Senator Godswill Akpabio. He appointed me the Director of Particular Duties and he can testify that my Workplace had or has no letterhead.
“I didn’t write any letter. There isn’t any manner I might have written a letter demanding funds with out the letter passing by means of the Workplace of the DG Arch Ubokobong Nya.
“The signature on the letter just isn’t my very own. The pretend letter is revealed on social media by a senior legislative aide to The Senate President.
“I travelled to the UK on the fifteenth Day of August 2023 and haven’t visited Nigeria until date. I don’t perceive how USAID Abuja obtained a letter from me on the thirteenth of November 2023.
“I’ve by no means in my life written a letter that has to do with contract or provide and I’ve no registered firm in Nigeria”.
Umoh disclosed that he has requested his legal professionals to provoke authorized motion in opposition to the Workplace of the Senate President to clear his title.
He additionally urged safety companies to compel the Workplace of the Senate President and USAID’s mission director to provide the writer of the pretend letter.
In a response, the senior legislative aide to the Senate President, Mfon Patrick insisted the letter emanated from Umoh.
“Zion Umoh labored because the Director of Particular Duties in Senator Akpabio’s marketing campaign council final 12 months. He wasn’t and hasn’t been appointed by the Senate President into any workplace named Particular Duties.
‘It’s an act of fraud for Umoh to have posed because the Director of Particular Duties within the Workplace of the Senate President to write down the letter to USAID requesting instructional improvement funds for Ikot Ekpene senatorial district.
“We aren’t going to permit this matter slip as a result of it’s an try and tarnish the integrity of the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio”.
