IMMEDIATE past Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has said the claim by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that he spurned series of invitations by the commission is misleading and an attempt to justify the hatchet job it is allegedly assigned to do.

The anti-graft agency, in a statement by its Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Tony Orilade, insisted that “the marking of the properties, which is a fall-out of our painstaking investigation, is as a result of the failure of the suspects to honour the commission’s invitation for questioning on the propriety of their acquisition”.

But the Media Adviser to the former governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, said the commission lied to cover up the truth.

Onwuemeodo, who showed a copy of EFCC’s invitation, dated July 22, said: “With utmost humility, I want to state that the EFCC lied by saying that they invited Mrs Uloma Rochas Nwosu and others severally without response. This is not true.

“The EFCC letter was dated Tuesday, July 22, 2019 and by 6 a.m on Wednesday, July 23, 2019, they had taken action. And in the letter, they asked them (suspects) to come on Wednesday, July 31, 2019. See the letter and know who is saying the truth.”