Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) who raided the home of former Lagos governor, Akinwumi Ambode, have been accused of attempting to incriminate him with foreign currencies.
This was alleged by three lawyers – Fatai Adebanjo, Busari Olanrewaju and Samson Okuneye – who claimed to have been present at Ambode’s residence during the search on Tuesday morning.
According to them, “before they entered, we searched all the officials of the EFCC who intended to go in for the search.
“There was a blue bag which they were holding with them.
“We requested to see the content of the bag before they could take it in.
“They got angry and said we could not see the content.
“Having said that, we strongly resisted them from taking it in since they would not allow us to see it; they later agreed.
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“We later got to know that the bag contained foreign currency which they brought to plant in the house of the ex-governor (Ambode) to incriminate him.”
Continuing, the lawyers said, “when our presence was intimidating them, they said we should sit down while they do the search.
“We insisted that we must follow them to observe every of their activities on the premises.
“To our greatest consternation, the officials of the EFCC, led by Rotimi Oyedepo, Esq, held on to our phones and told us to follow them to their office in Ikoyi to get our phones.
“All efforts to get back our phones were abortive, as the officials rushed into their white Hiace bus with our phones and instructed that since we had resisted their efforts to take the said blue bag into the main premises of the ex-governor, they would hold on to the phones.
“Thus, almost six phones were forcefully taken away, iPhones inclusive,” the statement added.
The lawyers claimed that their presence throughout the search stopped the EFCC from incriminating Ambode “with the blue bag they brought with them from an unknown destination.”
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