N2.5B Secret Account Opened In Housemaid Name, Stella Oduah Denies Allegation

The former Minister of Aviation under President Goodluck Jonathan administration Mrs Stella Oduah- Ogiemwonyi  has come out to deny the allegations levied against her by an America based online news outfit Sahara Reporters over an account purportedly opened in her housemaid name in one of the banks in Nigeria containing about N2.5 billion. According to Sahara Reporters the housemaid was neither aware or operated the accounted it was revealed that the account has Mrs Oduah as the sole signatory and the account is still very active till last week according to the online news sources in Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC.

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The former Minister who spoke through her Media assistant said that Sahara Reporters has been on her neck for a while now and that they are only out to tarnish her image and get cheap popularity with the media trials and persecution of perceived enemy of the present government and the opposition party members. She pointed out that the online news should produce any evidence it has on the allegation and make such public for all to see.

The senator representing Anambra state at the Senate also challenged Sahara Reporters to name those it called the sources in EFCC who has been given out such lies about her. She said Sahara reporters has tried to rubbish her since she was a minister with the false allegations of her stashing over N5.6 billion from the ministry of Aviation which was later reduced to N3.6 billion by the online news agency pointing out that she is waiting for them to produce evidence of such an account existence and her link to it.

Senator Stella Odua has been involved in so many controversies ranging from highly inflated purchase of 2 units of BMW bullet-proof cars without following due process. Also Sahara Reporters had in the past accused Mrs Oduah of presenting fake certificates from St. Paul’s College where Mrs Stella Oduah had claimed she studied and was awarded bachelors and Masters degrees from the institution saying the school did not award her an MBA at any time as the University does not even have a graduate school or post- graduate of such programme.

Mrs stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi was born to Igwe D.O. Oduah of Akili-Ozizor local government area in Anambra state on January 5, 1962. She had her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Accounting and Business Administration respectively in the United States and joined Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC upon her return to Nigeria in 1983. She establish the Sea Petroleum & Gas Company Limited SPG in 1992 a petroleum and products marketing company when she left NNPC same year. She was married to former Minister of Works Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi. Mrs Oduah was one of the six women elected as a senator in Nigeria in 2015 representing Anambra state at the 8^th assembly.