Former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu
Obanikoro, has charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to
stop defaming his sons over the alleged payment of N4.75 billion by the office
of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sabo Dasuki, into their
accounts, declaring that his sons received no such payment.
Reports in some national dailies had it that the EFCC had,
through a discreet investigation, traced the money to the account of Silva
McNamara Limited with links to the family of the former minister.
A source in the commission, according to the report, was
said to have confided that the company had Gbolahan and Babajide, two sons of
the former minister, on its board.
The former minister, in a reaction on Saturday through a
statement signed by his media aide, Mr. Jonathan Eze, challenged the EFCC to
publish, for public consumption, names of the directors and signatories to the
alleged Silva McNamara Limited account as at when the N4.75bn was paid from the
NSA office of the embattled former NSA, Col. Dasuki.
Obanikoro, who was also the immediate Minister of
State, Foreign Affairs and a former Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, also
challenged an online platform, Sahara Reporters, to do same, “instead of
demonising and deceiving Nigerians with vague, contrived and distorted
information.”
Obanikoro, while expressing disappointment with what he
described as “public political persecution” embarked upon by the two bodies,
threatened to pursue what he further described as “injustice and
infringements,” to a logical end at the court of law.
“I challenge the EFCC to publish in good conscience the
signatories and the names of the directors of the said company and to restate
that I shall conclusively pursue this injustice and infringements to a logical
end,” he said.
SOURCE; Tribune
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