EFCC forced me to lie against Goodluck Jonathan - GEJ's former aide cries out

EFCC forced me to lie against Goodluck Jonathan - GEJ's former aide cries out

- Dr Waripamo-Owei Dudafa says the EFCC coerced him into implicating Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ)

- The former aide to GEJ says the EFCC tormented him while in cutody

- Dudafa says he developed a spine injury while in being held by the antigraft agency

Dr Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, a former Senior Special Assistant to Ex-President Gooluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, said he was “tormented” by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a bid to get him to implicate the immediate past leader.

EXPOSED! EFCC told me to lie against Goodluck Jonathan - GEJ former aide

Dudafa said he developed a spinal cord ailment while in EFCC detention, adding that he was denied adequate medical treatment.

The former presidential aide said all the statements he wrote were dictated to him, and that he was induced to sign in exchange for his freedom.

The Nation reports that Dudafa was testifying in a trial-with-trial which began at the Federal High Court in Lagos after he claimed statements he made at EFCC were not voluntary.

EFCC arraigned him and Iwejuo Joseph Nna (alias Taiwo A. Ebenezer and Olugbenga Isaiah) before Justice Mohammed Idris on 23-count charge of conspiracy and concealment of crime proceeds.

They were accused of conspiring to conceal proceeds of crime amounting to over N1.6billion on June 11, 2013. They pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Dudafa said he was arrested last April 17 on a Sunday and kept in detention till Monday evening without anybody explaining why he was arrested.

The ex-presidential aide said he was kept in detention until April 27 before he was taken to EFCC’s office on Awolowo Road for interrogation, where he made four statements, including an asset declaration form which he described as a “sham.”

Dudafa said he was denied access to his mobile phone from April 27, and his family was stopped from bringing food to him.

The aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, alleged that the EFCC is mounting pressure on him to incriminate the former first lady, Patience Jonathan, over alleged money laundering.

Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, who is facing corruption trial by the anti-graft agency made the accusation in a petition to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) claiming he was being deliberately punished by the commission because of his loyalty to the former president and his family, Premium Times reports.