– Iweala’s aide denies reported EFCC probe
– Claims EFCC chairman was quoted out of context
-Urges media to be fair in reports
Former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has denied media reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to probe her along some principal officers in the former Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The media had reported that when acting EFCC chairman Magu appeared before the House of Representatives committee on financial crimes to defend the commission’s 2016 budget proposals, he told the committee of the agency’s plan to investigate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Diezani Alison-Madueke and an oil magnate.
However, Iweala in a statement by her media adviser Paul Nwabuikwu said the media reports alleging that the former minister was t be probed is misleading and untrue.
The statement which was released on Tuesday, February 9, stated that: We want to clarify that some of the media reports alleging that the EFCC is investigating former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, are misleading and untrue. This is clear from eye witness accounts of the Budget 2016 presentation by the EFCC at the House of Representatives and gaps in the reported stories.
The headlines are a misrepresentation of what the EFCC Chairman actually said during the event.
While the headlines claimed that the EFCC Chairman, in response to a question by an APC, member Hon Razak Atunwa, stated that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is under investigation, the actual words quoted in the same reports told a very different story.
According Nwabuikwu, the words of the EFCC chairman were: Very soon we will go into the petroleum industry. Such investigation requires that we have to build capacity, we have to bring in experts to enable us tackle what we are doing properly and the investigation must be conducted properly. We have internal lawyers and external lawyers. We have to pay insurance…”
The statement added: “The words said to have been spoken by the EFCC Chairman cannot support the lurid headlines that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is under investigation by the EFCC. The Nigerian media plays an important role in our democracy and we urge them to be fair, balanced and factual in their reports.”
The former minister’s aide urged the Nigerian media to be fair, balanced and factual in their reports, because it plays “an important role in our democracy.”
Meanwhile the EFCC has slammed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ricky Tarfa, on two-count charge of obstruction of justice and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Tarfa was on Friday February 5, arrested by agents of the EFCC in Lagos, for allegedly hiding two suspects, Nazaire Sorou Gnanhose and Modeste Finagnon, both Beninoise, in his Mercedes Benz Sport Utility car, thus shielding them from being arrested and willfully obstructing justice
– Claims EFCC chairman was quoted out of context
-Urges media to be fair in reports
Former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has denied media reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to probe her along some principal officers in the former Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The media had reported that when acting EFCC chairman Magu appeared before the House of Representatives committee on financial crimes to defend the commission’s 2016 budget proposals, he told the committee of the agency’s plan to investigate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Diezani Alison-Madueke and an oil magnate.
However, Iweala in a statement by her media adviser Paul Nwabuikwu said the media reports alleging that the former minister was t be probed is misleading and untrue.
The statement which was released on Tuesday, February 9, stated that: We want to clarify that some of the media reports alleging that the EFCC is investigating former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, are misleading and untrue. This is clear from eye witness accounts of the Budget 2016 presentation by the EFCC at the House of Representatives and gaps in the reported stories.
The headlines are a misrepresentation of what the EFCC Chairman actually said during the event.
While the headlines claimed that the EFCC Chairman, in response to a question by an APC, member Hon Razak Atunwa, stated that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is under investigation, the actual words quoted in the same reports told a very different story.
According Nwabuikwu, the words of the EFCC chairman were: Very soon we will go into the petroleum industry. Such investigation requires that we have to build capacity, we have to bring in experts to enable us tackle what we are doing properly and the investigation must be conducted properly. We have internal lawyers and external lawyers. We have to pay insurance…”
The statement added: “The words said to have been spoken by the EFCC Chairman cannot support the lurid headlines that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is under investigation by the EFCC. The Nigerian media plays an important role in our democracy and we urge them to be fair, balanced and factual in their reports.”
The former minister’s aide urged the Nigerian media to be fair, balanced and factual in their reports, because it plays “an important role in our democracy.”
Meanwhile the EFCC has slammed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ricky Tarfa, on two-count charge of obstruction of justice and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Tarfa was on Friday February 5, arrested by agents of the EFCC in Lagos, for allegedly hiding two suspects, Nazaire Sorou Gnanhose and Modeste Finagnon, both Beninoise, in his Mercedes Benz Sport Utility car, thus shielding them from being arrested and willfully obstructing justice
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