The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has directed an immediate investigation into bribery allegations made against certain officers of the commission by the controversial cross-dresser Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky.
In a video shared by blogger Martins Otse, known as VeryDarkMan, Okuneye, who has a criminal record, claimed that some unnamed EFCC officers demanded ₦15 million from him to dismiss money laundering charges.
In a statement released on Tuesday, EFCC spokesman Dele Oyewale announced that a team of investigators has been formed to probe the allegations.
“To this end, the Commission hereby invites both Okuneye and Otse (VeryDarkMan) to make themselves available at its Lagos Directorate to assist investigators unearth the alleged bribery,” he stated.
The EFCC emphasized its commitment to conducting a thorough investigation into the claims and promised to make the findings public.
Earlier in April, Bobrisky was sentenced to six months in prison without the option of a fine for currency abuse involving the Nigerian naira.
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Credible News recall that in a viral audio released by VeryDarkMan, Bobrisky alleged that some unnamed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission operatives collected N15 million from him to drop money laundering charges against him.
VeryDarkMan also alleged that Bobrisky never went to the prison as widely reported but was rather kept in an apartment.
The Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Haliru Nababa na di was also fingered in the circulated audio confession as Bobrisky has claimed that Nababa received a call from the cross dresser’s ‘godfather’ who ordered that he should be kept in the apartment instead of Kirikiri.
VeryDarkMan, while condemning these acts, called on the EFCC and the Correctional Service to investigate and bring to book the perpetrators of such acts, as according to him, only the poor masses gets to suffer for crimes while the rich in the country go free even after committing heinous crimes.
Reacting to the viral audio in a statement on Tuesday, the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, said the Commission’s Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had ordered an immediate investigation into the matter.
However, in an Instagram post on Wednesday morning, Bobirsky denied bribing any EFCC officer to drop money laundering charges against him, saying that he served his jail term.
The controversial social media sensation also described the viral voice recording as fake, stressing that the claim that he was never in prison was false and should be ignored.
He wrote: “My attention has been drawn to a fake voice recording circulating on the internet that I paid EFCC 15 million naira, and that I was never in prison… I didn’t pay any EFCC money, which is a very big lie. I served my term in full, and I came out. Discard any false information.”
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