The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been accused by a former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan of putting pressure on him to incriminate former first lady, Patience Jonathan.
Former senior adviser on Domestic matters to the former president, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa has sent a petition to the National Human Rights Commission that he was being deliberately punished by the Commission because of his loyalty to the former president and his family.
He accused the anti-graft agency of a desperation to perpetually detain him in despite meeting the bail conditions granted him by two federal judges.
“My only sin is that I have refused to yield to the Commission’s pressure to write false statements to incriminate the former first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan,” said Mr. Dudafa in his petition dated November 4.
Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC Spokesperson, denied Mr. Dudafa’s claims.
“I don’t know the petition you are talking about but whatever petition there is, the Commission does not force anybody to do anything,” Mr. Uwujaren told PREMIUM TIMES on Monday.
Mr. Dudafa was arrested by operatives of the State Security Service in Lagos last April while attempting to travel out of the country.
In June, the EFCC arraigned Mr. Dudafa and two others before Justice Mohammed Idris of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on a 23-count charge of concealment and retention of proceeds of crime totalling N1.67 billion.
He was also arraigned, alongside two persons and four companies, before Justice Babs Kuewumi of the same federal court for money laundering to the tune of $15 million.
Mrs. Jonathan has since claimed the money belonged to her.
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