The former Minister of State for Defense, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has
revealed another plot and desperate attempt by the operatives of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to nail him in the
ongoing investigation of arms deal linked to the embattled Office of the
National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki by making use of
blanked signed letter headed paper found in his 0house to forge
acknowledgement reciepts.
In a statement released on Friday by his Media Aide,
Mr Jonathan Eze, the former Minister expressed disappointment that the
anti graft agency has ignominously graduated from political persecution
into manufacturing evidences against his person in other to drag his
name in the mud, proving us right that the commision has devolved into a
government appendage for political withchunting.
The statement reads in parts:
” Recall that when the EFCC illegally raided my houses in Lagos, they
went away with various documents which included a blanked signed letter
headed papers as testified in the Affidavit sworn in the Court.
“It has however came to my notice that the EFCC has allegedly written an
acknowledgement on one of the document purportedly as evidence that i
collected the equivalent sum of 1million dollars in cash from a Bureau
the Change and signed for it. “This is another lie from the pit of hell.
How can anybody change money from a Bureau De Change and sign for it ?
“I still insist that throughout my stints as Minister, I never collected
any money from any Bureau De Change and as such, I urge the public to
ignore the EFCC who are trying to skew up investigations in its favour.
“The EFCC has obviously betrayed public trust by its latest sinister
plan of manufacturing receipt in my name. Instead of genuinely carrying
out it’s mandate, it has been grossly overshadowed by political wiles.
Last month, Punch newspaper had quoted a detective at the EFCC saying that :
โThe owner of A. A. G. B. S Oil and Gas confirmed to us that the company
is a BDC but was only bearing the name of an oil company. He confirmed
that he received N168m from Sylvan McNamara and $1m was delivered to
Obanikoro in cash while he was the Minister of State for Defence based
on the exchange rate at the time.
โObanikoro acknowledged receipt of the cash and we have recovered evidence.โ
