The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday said a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Gooluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Dr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, was granted an administrative bail which he did not fulfill.
The commission said it obtained a remand order from a Magistrate’s Court to detain Dudafa, adding that he was not detained illegally.
Dudafa had claimed while testifying on Monday that he was “tormented” by EFCC in a bid to get him to implicate the former president.
Dudafa said he developed a spinal cord ailment while in detention at EFCC, adding that he was denied adequate medical treatment.
The former presidential aide said all the statements he wrote were dictated to him, and that he was induced to sign the statements in exchange for his freedom.
Dudafa spoke while testifying in a trial-with-trial which began at the Federal High Court in Lagos after he claimed statements he made at EFCC were not voluntary.
EFCC arraigned him and Iwejuo Joseph Nna (alias Taiwo A. Ebenezer and Olugbenga Isaiah) before Justice Mohammed Idris on 23-count charge of conspiracy and concealment of crime proceeds.
They were accused of conspiring to conceal proceeds of crime amounting to over N1.6billion on June 11, 2013.
They pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Under cross-examination by EFCC’s lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo, on Tuesday, Dudafa said he could not remember if he was offered bail.
“If I was offered bail, I would not have been in detention for 60 days,” he said.
Oyedepo then showed him a document containing bail conditions that the commission issued to him. Dudafa confirmed that the signature on it is his.
The document was then tendered in evidence and marked as Exhibit TWT2D.
