Our attention has
been drawn to a malicious and misleading report trending on the social media
platforms that Ola Olukoyede, Chief of Staff, CoS, to Ibrahim Magu, the Acting
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC was a staff "seconded"
to the Commission from the Chambers of Femi Falana, SAN.
The report further
alleged that Falana, SAN is a beneficiary of some of the properties recovered
by the Commission from the late Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha,
former Governor of Bayelsa State, hence the secondment of Olukoyede to the
EFCC. The allegations are not only unfounded but evil, as all the properties
recovered from the former governor have been returned to the state Bayelsa
State government.
For the record, Olukoyede was not "seconded"
to the EFCC by Falana and he has never worked in Femi Falana’s Chambers. He
was head hunted based on his pedigree. Even if he had worked for Falana it may
not have mattered as working for Falana is not a criminal offence in the nation’s
statute.
It is also important
to state that Falana, SAN is not a counsel to the EFCC and has never interfered
in the operations of the agency.
The author of the mischievous
and misleading information went ahead to give the telephone number of the CoS
and asked members of the public to call and enquire if he was indeed a former
staff of Femi Falana’s Chambers. He has therefore been bombarded with
unsolicited calls by members of the public.
Whoever is behind
this criminal act should desist forthwith as any attempt to further malign the
reputation of Olukoyede and the EFCC would not go unchallenged.
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