The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has described as false and mischievous an online video trending on the social media, an assault by operatives of the commission.
A Nollywood actress based in Asaba, Delta state, Helen Aduru, had alleged how she was assaulted by operatives of the commission sometime in July after forcefully pulling down the doors to her home.
However, the anti-graft agency in a statement on Saturday by Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, head, media and publicity, dismissed the video as “mere publicity-seeking…with a poorly-scripted claim that has fallen flat in the face of unassailable facts available to the commission.”
The EFCC noted that its officers don’t wear name tags nor move around with bulldozer-shaped equipment to pull down security doors.
“Aduru claimed, rather strangely, that she was assisted by a little boy, to a Police Station at 3:44 am but met the station shut.
“It is important to note that police stations are not civil service ministries that “close” in the evening. Even more preposterous is the fact that she never went back, at daybreak, to lodge a complaint. More poignantly untenable is the fact that her purported assault of July 21, 2022, which has not been logged nearly two months later at the police station is only being brought to public glare on September 2, 2022!! Such a scene could only stand on a typical Nollywood fiction series,” Uwujaren stated.
According to the statement, Adurus claim, “like all other stranger- than- fiction, click-baiting, sympathy-seeking ploys, do not merit a response but for the need to avoid “silence is acquiescence” stance of mischief makers. Deeper checks on the matter only showed that, certain blackmailers could be bandying some known names in the Enugu Zonal Command to settle some scores.
“The commission, strictly guided by its Standard Operational Procedure, would not succumb to blackmail or any sleight of hand by any character. The poorly- scripted video would be further analysed for more forensic details and possible legal action to dissuade those who seem to be making an industry of falsely accusing and maligning the commission. Members of the public are enjoined to ignore Aduru’s claims. EFCC’s officers are not assaulters or terrorists.”
