By Ese Amadasun
April 24, 2024
On my honour, I put a call to him to honour him as a former governor. He said, I cant come, claiming that a certain lady has surrounded the EFCC with over 100 journalists to embarrass or intimidate him and all that stuff. I said, if that is your fear, I will make you come directly to my floor. I will invite my operatives to interrogate you in my own office. What could be more honourable than that? Do you know what he said? ‘Cant they come to my village?’ My Director of Investigations also sent a message to him, he said.
The EFCCs boss said he was worried at the report of larceny available to the EFCC concerning the former governor.
A sitting governor, because he knew he was going, he moved money directly from the governments account to a bureau-de-change to pay his childrens school fees in advance, $720,000, in anticipation that he was going to leave government house, he said.
Olukoyede also disclosed that the EFCC, in its bid to ensure the safety and stability of the foreign exchange market, has uncovered a new fraudulent scheme called P2P, peer to peer trading scheme. The platform, according to him, is operating outside the official banking and financial corridors, with more than 300 (three hundred) accounts linked to it already frozen by the EFCC.
He reaffirmed the commitment of the Commission to the economic growth and development of the country, promising that the EFCC would not relent in the exercise of its mandate.
He told the media executives that the Commission has recovered more than N120 billion from fraudsters within six months and secured more than 1,300 convictions.
He called on Nigerians to be more dedicated to the nation, insisting that patriotic Nigerians should offer more support to the EFCC because the Commission is crucial to the growth and development of Nigeria.
If you support the EFCC, you are working for the growth of Nigeria. We all have stakes in the well-being of our nation, he said.
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