EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblowers Offer To Release Documents Concerning N1.9 Trillion EFCC’s ‘Recovered’ Loots

The George Uboh Whistleblowers Network has offered to release documents concerning the over N1.993 trillion naira (aggregate of different currencies), he claimed were purportedly recovered across the country by anti-graft agency, Economics and Financial Crimes Commission,  EFCC since inception till 2013.

BigPen Online learnt that this is coming on the backdrop of EFCC’s alleged claims that ‘sensitive documents’ of the commission were lost to the fire which gutted the building currently housing the Data Centre and the Combined Inter Agency Task Force of the commission.

Recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had last week directed the Ibrahim Magu-led anti-graft commission to account for all the money EFCC recovered.

Consequently, Dr. George Uboh, Chairman
George Uboh Whistleblowers Network, however raised suspicious that the EFCC’s  fire incident occurred days after Buhari asked for the stewardship, thus fueling suspicious that something was amiss.

He queried if the EFCC’s fire incident was a convenient excuse not to account to the President, expressing concern if the anti-graft agency have something to hide, since it “now claimed to have lost sensitive documents”.

In a terse statement made available to BigPen Online, Uboh said, “President Buhari said he has asked Magu to account for all EFCC recoveries; days later, EFCC’s office was gutted by fire, and EFCC is now claiming they have lost sensitive documents.

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“I have all the documents germane to the N1.993 Trillion Naira (aggregate of different currencies) EFCC stole from inception to 2013. I will volunteer my copy to the President”.

Meanwhile, confirming the fire incident, EFCC Acting Head, Media andPublicity, Tony Orilade said the fire which gutted the Wuse 2 office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) almost razed down the Wuse 2 Zonal office of the EFCC but was successfully subdued by men of the Federal Fire Service, FFS, Wuse Zonal office.

“The fire fighters led by the Sector Commander, Melone Onyekachi, arrived the Wuse 2 office of the Commission when the service was alerted of the fire by the Incident Duty Officer of the Commission, Kayode Oyetunde at 7:10p.m. The fire started at the former newsroom, which now serves as storage for ICT equipments that were retrieved from the Commission former offices scattered across the Capital City.

“The former newsroom is domiciled in the two Storey Costa Hall which was commissioned by Dr. Antonio Maria Costa on 13th November 2007. The building currently houses the Data Centre and the Combined Inter Agency Task Force. When asked what could have cursed the fire, Onyekachi said, ‘Our duty is to put off the fire; that we have successfully done. There is another department that will come and ascertain the cause of the fire’, he explained.

Two officers attached to the Combined Inter-Agency Task force who were trapped on the second floor of the building were successfully rescued before the fire was eventually subdued.

“The extent of the damage would be ascertained after stock taking. The Commission’s Chief Security Officer, CSO, Nasir Abdullahi, DSP immediately after the fire was curtailed, went to the Maitama Police Station to incident the fire outbreak.

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Policemen from the Station who followed him to the Commission, however, promised to return for further enquiry. Management and officers of the Commission who were on ground to concertedly subdue the fire were: the Supervisory Secretary, Mr. Chile Okoroma; Director, Finance and Accounts, Jubril Manigi; Zonal Head of Operation, Mohammed Rabo; DD, Admin, N.T Ibrahim; Head of Legal, Kabir Latona; Head of ICT, Isah J. Abdullahi among others,” Orilade added.