The attention of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a
trending video insinuating that Mr. Jonathan Okunbor, a suspect
being investigated for an alleged N6billion fraud, was an election witness.
The Commission
wishes to state without any equivocation that Okunbor is not a witness of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the election tribunal as claimed by Mr.
Asue Ighodalo. Rather, he is a prime suspect connected to a case of
misappropriation of funds involving all the 18 local government areas of Edo
State.
Ongoing
investigations showed that about N6billion was diverted to Kezmith Global
Ventures owned by Ogunbor. The suspect was running the ventures using the
name and identity of Mr. Godfrey Emode.
The Commission’s
investigators, in their quest to unearth the shadiness of Ogunbor,
arrested Emode who led them to the suspect in Eterno Hotel where a pre-trial
meeting was being held.
Investigators
interrogated the counsel to Ighodalo on the status of Ogunbor in
the election tribunal matters and he clearly stated that he was not a witness
in the matter.
In spite of
this, Mr. Ighodalo and his co-travellers at Eterno Hotel prevented EFCC
officers from carrying out their constitutional duty and obstructed them from
arresting Ogunbor. Specifically, Ighodalo insisted that Ogunbor was his
witness when it was obvious that he only wanted to aid his escape from the
Commission’s investigators.
The
EFCC remains committed to its adherence to the rule of law and the
Commission has no business with any Edo State election witness that has no
corruption charge before it. The EFCC will not hesitate to bring anyone
to trial, witness or no witness, if it has a basis for doing so.
The public
is assured that Ogunbor will be brought to book soon in connection
with the alleged N6billion fraud involving his firm, Kezmith Global
Ventures
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