The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) has reportedly begun the investigation of the
new Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and
his company, Metropole Interproject Limited, over an
alleged N400 million forgery.
A frontline human rights activist, , Comrade Adeniyi,
Alimi Sulaiman, Executive Chairman, Centre for Human
Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), whose petition led
to the investigation, disclosed that he has been
invited by the anti-graft agency to come and shed
more light on the petition.
The petition dated Monday, 2nd November, 2015
entitled “Request for Prosecution of Prince Enitan
Adeyeye Ogunwusi and his Company named
Metropole Interproject Limited for the Offence of
forgery, Fraudulent Conversion and Obtaining the sum
of N400 million by false Pretence” was forwarded to
the EFCC Chairman and received on Friday, November
6, 2015. Copies were also sent to President
Muhammadu Buhari, Transparency International (TI),
Embassy of the United Kingdom (UK), as well as
those of the United States of America (USA) and
Republic of Canada.
The petition was supported with the series of
evidence, including a petition letter dated 7th
September, 2015 which authored by a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Rotimi Jacobs of
Rotimi Jacobs & Co Chambers.
Comrade Sulaiman said in a signed statement issued
yesterday in Lagos that he received a phone call from
an EFCC official advising his group to report at the
commission’s Economic and Governance Crime (EGC
1) department in Lagos this week.
According to him, “The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited us and we are
going to appear before it this week to substantiate
our position on the subject matter. Our belief is that
to every logical mind, the gold is gold, regardless of
whether a Prince
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or beggar, is holding it in his hand. There is need for
inculcation of moral value to our society through the
palace in every community in the land and anybody
that would occupy the position of authority should
come with integrity in order to serve as a good
example to younger generation.
“It is also our belief that if you are preaching equity,
you must come with clean hand. Worshiping of money
and world materials increases the social vices in the
country today which makes the corruption to be on
the increase geometrically. We don’t have any
personal grudge
against Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi because we
believe that God makes a leader but we want justice
to be done on any issue of this nature as it has been
part of our stand. Anybody alleges of any wrong
doing needs to clear his or her name first before
occupying any exalted position. It is because Nigeria
as a country has been eroded of moral values where
brigandage takes the order of the day.”
Comrade Sulaiman urged EFCC to also “invite Mr.
Rotimi Jacobs, who authored the first petition on the
matter, and as well as Professor Gabriel Olawoyin,
the head of Olawoyin & Olawoyin Chambers, to come
and state their position on the mind-boggling issue.”
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