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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has debunked allegations that it shared N54 billion out of the forfeited assets of Godwin Emefiele, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
Dele Oyewale, the EFCC spokesperson, in a statement on Wednesday, described the allegations as infantile and insisted that no official of the commission was involved in sharing of the forfeited assets, adding that the EFCC Act 2004 and the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act 2022 does not create no room for “sharing” of forfeited assets.
The statement read: “The EFCC denounces as false the report by the online news platform, Sahara Reporters, alleging that N54 billion forfeited by some associates of a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, was ‘shared’ among certain ministers and aides of President Bola Tinubu, in collaboration with EFCC officials.
“No official of the Commission was or has ever been involved in the ‘sharing’ of any proceeds of forfeited assets. The notion of ‘sharing of proceeds of forfeited assets’ is strange to the Commission.
“The sensational report which was promoted ostensibly to scandalise the agencies mentioned, betrays the author’s ignorance of the existing asset recovery and management framework. There is no ‘platform’ for the ‘sharing of forfeited assets’; the notion itself being infantile.
“The truth is, it simply did not happen! Dishing fiction to the public as news is the height of irresponsibility and EFCC will not tolerate any attempt to defame its hard-earned reputation.”
