A
former presidential aide has made a serious allegation against the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as the investigation of
Patience Jonathan continues.
Waripamo-Owei Dudafa
Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs
to the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, has acused the EFCC
of impropriety.
The man is alleging that the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, wants him to write incriminating statements that would
indict the former First Lady, Patience Jonathan.
According to Daily Post, in a petition to the National Human Rights
Commission, NHRC, dated November 4 2016, the former Special Adviser
maintained that the anti-graft agency was after him because of his
closeness with the former First Family.
The former Presidential aide claimed that EFCC was desperately out
to keep him in custody despite meeting the bail conditions granted him
by two federal judges.
The petition reads in part, “My only sin is that I have refused
to yield to the Commission’s pressure to write false statements to
incriminate the former first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan.”
Recall that the anti-graft agency had recently ordered the freezing
of some bank accounts belonging to the former First Lady due to its
ongoing investigation of alleged money laundering.
EFCC had also confirmed that Mrs Jonathan is being investigated for
money laundering, though no case has been instituted against her in any
court yet.
Similarly, Dudafa is currently facing trial before Justice M.B.
Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos on a 23-count charge relating to a
N1.6bn fraud.
The former Presidential spokesman has continued to languish in detention of the anti-graft agency despite been granted bail.
Just last Thursday, a Federal High Court in Lagos convicted four
companies linked to Dudafa for laundering $15.5m kept in their accounts
with Skye Bank.
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