Musa Na Allah Sokoto
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to an online video trending on Instagram, from the handle of a certain “@Iamhelenaduru”, a self-styled actress, purporting an assault on her person by operatives of the Commission.
In a statement signed by Mr. Wilson Uwajaren, the head of media and Publicity of the anti-graft Agency and made available to newsmen in Sokoto, the Commission flagged the alleged owner of the video Helen Aduru, an upcoming actress, as a publicity-seeking player, with a poorly- scripted claim that has fallen flat in the face of unassailable facts available to the Commission
The statement revealed that in the script of the actress, she was quick to include five names of officers she claimed came from the Cybercrime Section of the Enugu Command of the Commission.
According to the statement characteristically, EFCC’s officers don’t wear name tags nor move around with bulldozer-shaped equipment to pull down security doors of persons or suspects.
“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 in a typical Nollywood fiction series,” says EFCC
“Such claims by Aduru, like all other strangers-than-fiction, click-baiting, sympathy-seeking ploys, do not merit a response but for the need to avoid the “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 scores,” EFCC further stated.
The statement however disclosed that the Commission is strictly guided by its Standard Operational Procedure and would not succumb to blackmail or any sleight of hand by any character.
The poorly- scripted video the Commission reiterated would be further analyzed for more forensic details and possible legal action to dissuade those who seem to be making industry of falsely accusing and maligning the Commission.
The EFCC called on members of the public to ignore Aduru’s claims, that EFCC’s officers are not assaulters or terrorists.
