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19 February 2016 - Inquest into shady deals in the oil and gas sector is proceeding apace with the arrest and detention of some players in the sector.
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, disclosed, yesterday, that Mr. Olajide Omokore has been arrested and has been in the agency's custody in the last three days.
Omokore, who was quizzed by the EFCC last year but later released, is Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited and a director in Seven Energy International Limited.
Atlantic Energy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of controversial approvals made by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, under the former President Goodluck Jonathan's administration.
Magu disclosed Omokore's detention, yesterday, during a courtesy visit to Vanguard's head office in Lagos. He also vowed to prosecute the war against graft to the letter, even if it meant laying down his life.
This came as the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, cautioned the Federal Government against abusing provisions of the constitution in the name of anti-corruption war, claiming that the government was doing more of persecution than prosecution.
Countering allegations that his commission was selective in prosecuting the anti-corruption war, the EFCC boss said:
"People have the right to say that we are selective. But any minister or government official that is accused of corruption will be investigated. We will invite the person to our office.
We are already investigating the NNPC. Even now Omokore is back in cell. I don't know how he managed the publicity, he has been in cell for three days." We won't spare anybody!
He said: "Corruption is an attack on our individual and corporate security. It is deliberate and calculated wickedness against our existence. Those stealing and abusing our common patrimony do not wish us well. They do not wish our health, education, security, convenience, prosperity and posterity well.
They do not wish us well among the comity of civilized nations."
Magu vowed to be "total, holistic and unsparing", in his approach to tackling corrupt practices. How senior lawyers are frustrating the war.
He also fumed that efforts at recovering stolen public funds and prosecuting alleged looters were being frustrated by 133 senior lawyers, describing such as a conspiracy against the commission.
19 February 2016, Lagos — Inquest into shady deals in the oil and gas sector is proceeding apace with the arrest and detention of some players in the sector. Acting Chairman of the Economic and Fin…
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