{"id":122204,"date":"2019-05-30T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122204"},"modified":"2019-05-30T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:04:48","slug":"gov-ihedioha-freezes-bank-transactions-on-imo-govt-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122204","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Ihedioha freezes bank transactions on Imo govt accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has directed that all banks that have relationship with the State Government should not honour any withdrawal instruction by cheques, transfers or any other form.<\/p>\n

A statement by Steve Osuji, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, on Thursday, said no financial mandates or any form of financial instruction should be treated.<\/p>\n

The statement reads in part, \u201cAll outstanding financial instructions already with banks and financial institutions should be put on hold.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis directive covers, but not limited to, all the accounts of Ministries, Departments, Parastatals, Local Government councils, Quasi-government Agencies, and all revenue generating organs of government.<\/p>\n

\u201cBanks and non-bank financial institutions are to take note and ensure compliance as the state government will not be responsible for any disbursement effected contrary to this directive.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the directive will remain in force until otherwise advised.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeads of government agencies, departments, parastatals, permanent secretaries and relevant officers will be held responsible for any breach. This directive takes effect immediately.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has directed that all banks that have relationship with the State Government should not honour any withdrawal instruction by cheques, transfers or any other form. A statement by Steve Osuji, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, on Thursday, said no financial mandates or any form of financial instruction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5601,707],"class_list":["post-122204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-emeka-ihedioha","tag-imo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}