Alex Otti Orders Freezing Of Abia State Accounts, Dissolves Boards

Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, has ordered the immediate freezing of all bank accounts of belonging to the State and those of its agencies.

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The Governor in a statement issued by his media office on Monday, May 29, 2023, said with this notice, all banks and other financial institutions in the country are directed to immediately cease from honouring any cheque, document, instrument or directive of any kind not expressly approved by or emanating from him.

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Similarly, Governor Otti has directed the immediate dissolution of all boards of the Abia State Government agencies and parastatals and subsequently ordered the chief executives of these organisations to hand over to those next in line to them.

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