The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that the recent freezing of Benue and Akwa Ibom state governments’ accounts, was consequent upon months of investigation activities by its detectives.
This was as the Commission denied being in bed with the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, ostensibly to undermine the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
In a statement yesterday by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC said it was reacting to an article by the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu.
It said Ojudu had, in an article entitled, “fifth Columnists in Our Recent History”, “portrayed the Commission as a conscript in the devious plots by Senator Bukola Saraki to undermine the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari”.
Aming others, the anti-graft agency quoted Ojudu as writing thus: ‘From the shenanigans at the Benue House of Assembly, to the siege on National Assembly, the attack on judges home in the night, the so called barricade of the Senate President’s house, the laughable kidnap of Boy Dino and “his eleven hours on a tree’, the freezing of Benue and Akwa Ibom accounts all are scripted, produced and acted by Oloye Productions’.
But, the Commission, which denied being part of any real or imaginary “script” by Saraki, said: “It is important to state that the EFCC is not a party to the so called script by Saraki. Members of the public should disregard the innuendo in Ojudu’s article as it is unfounded.”
On the ‘post no debit order’ on Akwa Ibom and Benue states’ accounts, the statement noted that: “The Commission takes exception at the attempt to impute false motive to its investigative activities.
“The recent placement of a ‘Post No Debit Order’ on some accounts in Benue and Akwa Ibom States were the culmination of many months of painstaking investigation activities. To reduce such activities to the level of a stunt in a real or imaginary script by any politician is outrageous.”
It called for “circumspection on the part of political leaders, while urging them to seek clarification before making comments on matters they do not know about”.
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