Kuku
Former special adviser to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta and chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Hon. Kingsley Kuku, has asked the Economic and Financial Cries Commission, EFCC, not to tamper with the account of his charity organisation.
Kuku made this known on Monday in a telephone interview from his hospital bed in the United States during which he said no public fund is in charity account.
The former special adviser said the account which is used to operate his foundation, Keketobou Care Foundation, named after his mother, Mrs. Keketobou Kuku, has been used to help the poor in the society, especially, indigent students, widows, women and men.
Kuku was reacting to reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen the accounts of close allies of former President Goodluck Jonathan, including the Keketobou Care Foundation, which he runs.
The former presidential aide, who is recuperating in an American hospital after a knee surgery, said there were no government funds in the said account, which he said, had a total deposit of N720,484 as at the end of July this year.
According to Kuku, the amount found in the account was the proceeds from the launch of his book: “Remaking the Niger Delta: Challenges and Opportunities.”
He said before now, he had used his personal earnings and other donations by well-wishers to fund the account so as to provide enough funds for buying JAMB forms for poor indigenes of Ondo State and provide support to poor widows, women and traders in the state.
“I have always been using the Keketobou Care Foundation to help the poor and there is no evidence that the account has ever been funded with government money, as the records would show,” Kuku said.
He described as unfortunate any attempt by the EFCC or any other anti-craft agency to flag the account, saying that it was a politically-motivated move to implicate him and others who worked with Jonathan.
Kuku’s media aide, Mr. Yemi Akintomide, in a statement insisted that Kuku image was the target of the smear campaign and demanded for the immediate retraction of the said news item and an unreserved apology by the publisher of the newspaper
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