The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has
advised the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, to verify reports
before making public allegations.
The commission said it would not succumb to cheap blackmail.
In a statement signed by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren on
Wednesday, EFCC debunked the claims by Ekweremadu that it was planning to plant
cash and guns in his home, with the aim of arresting him and truncating his
political career.
The anti-graft agency said, “such a plan only existed in the
imaginative mind of the person who informed the Deputy Senate President of the
alleged plot.
The Commission therefore, advised Ekweremadu not to lose
sleep over such reports, if he had nothing to hide.
The statement said the EFCC did not need any dubious means
to arrest Ekweremadu, since he had no immunity.
Although the EFCC did not state if it was investigating
Ekweremadu or not, it said such allegations would not stop its operatives from
doing their job.
“It must be emphatically stated for the benefit of Senator
Ekweremadu and others, who share similar misconception and jaundiced views of
the EFCC, that, the Commission does not need any grand plot to arrest and
prosecute him, if he is found to have violated any law that EFCC enforces”, the
statement reads in part.
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