Prosecute Sullivan Chime For Sale Of Hotel Presidential, ICC- Enugu Lawyer To EFCC

​Worried by the progressive dilapidation of the iconic foremost Enugu Hotel Presidential, fiery Enugu-based lawyer, Ray Nnaji, on Thursday, renewed his demand on the Economic Financial Crime Commission, EFCC,seeking former Governor Sullivan Chime’s prosecution over alleged sale of the hotel to himself through proxy.

Nnaji, a former National Auditor of the People Democratic Party, PDP, said he was loosing sleep following the decrepit state of the hotel which stood as the symbol of the old eastern region that has become a grazing field for herdsmen.

Vanguard’s visit at the hotel showed that the edifice has been turned to a grazing field by suspected herdsmen occasioned by the eight years abandonment of Chime’s administration. This was even as doors,windows, and other consumables were catered away during the immediate past administration.

In an exclusive chat with Vanguard, Nnaji said, “it is no longer news that former governor Chime moneitized Enugu Hotel Presidential to himself using proxy. I had petitioned the EFCC over this matter and they have not done anything as regards investigation. The place has been dilapidated and turned to a grazing reserve following its abandonment.

“The hotel should have been generating revenue in form of Internal Generated Revenue, IGR, for the state especially now that there is crude oil glut at the international market. But instead of that, Chime diverted the place to himself through proxy. The prelude was manifest the other day the EFCC invited him over the N450 million election campaign fund.

“Enugu people are loosing in the employment they are supposed source if the hotel was functional. We must not keep quiet to these financial malfeasances as he and his cronies corner our collective patrimony. The revenue generated if the hotel was functional could have been channeled to infrastructural development that will alleviate the sufferings of the people.

“Go round Enugu, you cannot point to one functional state-owned company as a result of Chime’s eight years mal-administration. The result is what we are experiencing now as the revenue board is over taxing individual businesses because the state is not buoyant. That is because there is no revenue from companies like Hotel Presidential. Apart from the fact that he bequeathed the hotel to himself,he could not develop it either.

“That was the same thing he did in Enugu International Conference Centre, ICC. The place was sold and parcelated to cronies until this present administration came in to salvage the rot. The ICC could have been giving the state at least N1 billion annually in form of revenue apart from the employment. But he has sold everything and the state is hanging on a balance now”.

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