The Controller General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Haliru Nababa is to be investigated over allegations of bribery and corruption raised by Idris Okuneye (aka Bobrisky).
Spokesperson of the Minister of Interior, Babatunde Alao, who disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja, added that the minister ordered that an unconditional and comprehensive investigation within the service.
The statement said the special investigative team is headed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Dr. Magdalene Ajani.
“Tunji-Ojo unequivocally condemned the alleged reprehensible behaviour, emphasizing that any form of indiscipline, unprofessionalism, and corruption in the Service would be met with zero tolerance and severe consequences,” the statement.
Similarly, some operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are to be investigated for allegedly receiving bribes as revealed by Bobrisky in a viral video circulating across the country.
The EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, in a statement on Wednesday, said the Commission’s Chairman, Ola Olukoyede gave the order immediately the ex-convict had alleged in the video powered by Martins Vincent Otse (aka VeryDarkMan) that some unnamed officers of the EFCC collected the sum of N15,000,000 (Fifteen Million Naira only) from him to drop money laundering charges against him.
The statement said Olukoyede has since set up the team to critically look into the allegations, adding that the commission has invited both Okuneye and Otse to the Lagos Directorate to assist investigators unearth the alleged bribery.
Oyewale said the commission would thoroughly investigate the allegation and the result of the findings made public accordingly.
In the audio released by VeryDarkMan, controversial crossdresser, Bobrisky, said the bribe was used by the unidentified operatives to drop the money laundering charge against him.
Bobrisky in the audio said “Am okay, all those monies cannot buy me N4.5 million a house? … Blab bla bla … I am staying in Chevron. I have to beg them. If they have to remove the money laundering (charge), how much would they collect? They said we should go and pay N15 million, they would remove the money laundering (charge).
He also revealed how he transferred the fund through some of his friends.
Bobrisky made allegations against human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, and the Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Haliru Nababa.
He said one bad guy had approached him, telling him that “his father is a SAN, … reach out to him. His father spoke to me. His father said we can apply for pardon, that my case is federal, that the federal can actually pardon me, the president can do it, that I can even leave here next week, I don’t have to wait till I … the man now said they will now have to send it the Minister of Justice in Abuja, Minister of Justice will now send it to the president and approve it.
“But you know Nigeria now, Nigeria with corruption and everything, they will take it fast to him, the lawyer said they will collect N10 million for him … that that N10 million will clear my name off the record.
“There is nobody to call, I have friends, you don’t know who will set you up.”
There was nowhere Bobrisky in the audio mentioned Femi Falana, it was VDM who has been mentioning Falana’s name all through.
The crossdresser has, however, in an Instagram post on Wednesday, said the audio was fake.
He wrote: “My attention has been drawn to a fake voice recording circulating on the internet that I paid EFCC 15 million naira and that I was never in prison.
“I didn’t pay any EFCC money; it is a very big lie. I served my term in full and I came out. Discard any false information.”
