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EFCC Denies Probe Of Chief Justice Onnoghen by megafem1: 5:20pm On Sep 06, 2017 |
Denying that it is investigating Justices
Onnoghen and Kafarati, the commission
recalled that when the Chief Justice was
being considered for his present position,
the Commission received some petitions
against him, but that they were investigated
and then discarded, having been found to
be without merit.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) today denied a
story in The Punch, one of Nigeria’s most
authoritative and respected journals, that it
is investigating several high-profile
Nigerians, including the Chief Justice
(CJN), Walter Onnoghen.
Others named by the newspaper include
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Minister for
Finance & Coordinating Minister of the
Economy; the Minister of Solid Minerals
Development and former Ekiti State
Governor, Kayode Fayemi; his successor as
governor, Ayodele Fayose; Justice
Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High
Court., Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello,
and his predecessor, Captain Idris
Wada; former
governors Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Lu
(Edo), Jonah Jang (Plateau)
and Ali Modu Sherriff (Borno), and former
First Lady Patience Jonathan.
Former Ministers under
President Goodluck Jonathan on the list,
according to The Punch, include
Mohammed Adoke, Bala Mohammed,
Stella Oduah, Godsday Orubebe. Prominent
on it also is the immediate past Minister of
Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-
Madueke, along with her husband,
Rear Admiral Alison Madueke (Rtd.).
The Punch story was written by
seven reporters, which suggests the
organization spent a lot of resources on its
investigation, and on poring over the list.
According to the story, the sources of
the information against each of the persons
on the list are listed against them, and
include intelligence, whistle-blowers and
petitions from government agencies and
private citizens.
The Punch, saying the list was seen by one
of its correspondents courtesy of an EFCC
source on Monday, also noted that the
commission sent it to the Attorney General
of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr.
Abubakar Malami at his request.
In its response, the EFCC categorically
denied that the report emanated from
it, dismissing the allusion to “an EFCC
source” as “diversionary and mischievous.”
According to the statement, cases under
investigation that it
communicates to the AGF are classified
information. To that end, it described
as “troubling” that such a list could have
been leaked to the media, adding that
the mastermind aimed at creating
disaffection between the commission and,
particularly, the judiciary.
Denying that it is investigating
Justices Onnoghen and Kafarati, the
commission recalled that when the Chief
Justice was being considered for his
present position, the Commission received
some petitions against him, but that they
were investigated and then discarded,
having been found to be without merit.
“Indeed, much damage has been done to
the Commission’s investigation activities by
this leak especially as some of the cases
mentioned are still at preliminary stages of
investigation,” the EFCC concluded.
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