Former Minister of Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has released a statement
reacting to reports that his wife, was questioned by officials of the
Department of State Security. According to the former Minister, contrary
to media reports, his wife was invited and not arrested. Read the
statement below
โWe are saddened by the fact that the media was awash with false and
conflicting information about the invitation of Senator Obanikoroโs
wife. Ordinarily, we considered ignoring these concocted lies but for
the sake of discerning and right thinking public, hence the need to
straighten matters.
First, Alhaja Moroophat has always been in the
country managing her businesses as against the lie that she sneaked in
last week from the United States. Second, No documents were found in her
possession and the lie that she was arrested while trying to evacuate
documents is a fabrication and can only survive in their warped and
distorted minds. It should also be noted that the officials only came to
invite her for questioning and as against the phrase that she was
whisked away, her driver actually drove her in her own car to the office
of the DSS. Third, it was shamefully reported that the DSS were
involved because there were so many armed policemen guiding her. This is
another fabricated lie. Even when he was serving as Minister, his
family never enjoyed any police protection let alone after leaving
office and as a woman who is above board in all her dealings, she does
not need one. Finally, we are using this medium to call on the officials
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to resist from
persecuting an innocent woman who has no dealings at all with any of the
businesses that they are investigating and totally unaware of the
alleged transactions. For emphasis, the innocent woman has a history of
High Blood Pressure and heart related ailments and as such should not be
dragged into their biased and politicized investigations. We have
absolute confidence in the judiciary and we hope to get justice in the
course with the proviso that they obey the rule of Law and avoid
arbitrariness that we are seeing on daily basis.”the statement read
