The EFCC and the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu are at daggers drawn following allegation by Ekweremadu that the anti-graft agency plans to plant incriminating documents and huge sums of money in his residence with a view to arresting him.
EFCC in a statement by its spokesman Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, on Wednesday, said the claim by the legislator is false and unfounded and therefore should be disregarded.
Ekweremadu had raised the alarm at Wednesday’s plenary of the upper chamber of the National Assembly that there were plots by the Commission to set him up by planting monies and guns in his residence.
“The Commission wishes to state in very strong terms that it is not aware of any plot to set up Ekweremadu for any arrest. If any agency is plotting to plant monies and guns in Ekweremadu’s residence, it is certainly not the EFCC as such antics are alien to the Commission,” Uwujaren said.
He said, “Nevertheless, the Commission is worried by the alarm and the fact that the highly-regarded Deputy President of the Nigerian senate would go public with such unverified information without first double-checking with the Commission.
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“This is not only very strange but smacks of a scripted propaganda campaign to distract the Commission by putting it on the defensive”.
“It must be emphatically stated for the benefit of Senator Ekweremadu and others who share similar misconception and jaundiced views of the EFCC, that the Commission does not need any grand plot to arrest and prosecute him if he is found to have violated any law that EFCC enforces.
“He does not belong in the category of public officers that enjoy immunity from arrest and prosecution by law enforcement agencies,” Uwujaren said.
He said, “the alleged plot by EFCC to raid Senator Ekweremadu’s house on May 6 2017, exists only in the very fertile imagination of the Distinguished Deputy Senate President’s questionable “source”, whom he claims is “Close to the EFCC”.
“The Commission’s candid advice to Ekweremadu is to sleep easy if he is not involved in the looting spree that seems to be the pastime of many Nigerians in the corridors of power.
“Let it be known however, that there will be no amount of scare-mongering that will dissuade the EFCC from vigorously enforcing its mandate to rid Nigeria of corruption,” Uwujaren said.
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