Sources disclosed that a whooping sum of fifty million Dollar cash was allegedly found in the Uyo residence of the immediate past Secretary to the Government of Akwa Ibom State, Umana Okon Umana. A joint team of State Security Services and heavily Armed Police men, believed to have been mobilized from the Akwa Ibom State Government House are said to have stormed Umana’s residence, few days after his removal from office.
 
Sources say the security operatives were sent to the former SSG’s residence on the governor’s instruction to retrieve what he described as ‘vital documents’ of the state government. It was on the process of retrieving these documents that they stumbled on the money.

However, sources from Umana Umana’s camp are alleging that the governor knows something about the money, and must have sent the money to him as there was an outstanding financial deal before he Umana was sacked.

Atlantic Reporters investigations revealed that following the former SSG’s absence in his residence during the raid, his wife was made to sign some documents, acknowledging that the said money was found in her residence. The money is said to have been kept in the joint custody of the State Security Services and the Police in the state.