- Dr Waripamo-Owei Dudafa says the EFCC coerced him into implicating Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ)
- The former aide to GEJ says the EFCC tormented him while in cutody
- Dudafa says he developed a spine injury while in being held by the antigraft agency
Dr
Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, a former Senior Special Assistant to Ex-President
Gooluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, said he was “tormented” by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a bid to get him to
implicate the immediate past leader.
EXPOSED! EFCC told me to lie against Goodluck Jonathan - GEJ former aide
Dudafa said he developed
a spinal cord ailment while in EFCC detention, adding that he was denied adequate medical treatment.
The
former presidential aide said all the statements he wrote were dictated
to him, and that he was induced to sign in exchange for his freedom.
The Nation reports that Dudafa was
testifying in a trial-with-trial which began at the Federal High Court
in Lagos after he claimed statements he made at EFCC were not voluntary.
EFCC
arraigned him and Iwejuo Joseph Nna (alias Taiwo A. Ebenezer and
Olugbenga Isaiah) before Justice Mohammed Idris on 23-count charge of
conspiracy and concealment of crime proceeds.
They
were accused of conspiring to conceal proceeds of crime amounting to
over N1.6billion on June 11, 2013. They pleaded not guilty to all the
charges.
Dudafa said he was arrested last April
17 on a Sunday and kept in detention till Monday evening without
anybody explaining why he was arrested.
The ex-presidential aide said he was kept
in detention until April 27 before he was taken to EFCC’s office on
Awolowo Road for interrogation, where he made four statements, including
an asset declaration form which he described as a “sham.”
Dudafa said he was denied access to his mobile phone from April 27, and his family was stopped from bringing food to him.
The
aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, alleged that the EFCC is
mounting pressure on him to incriminate the former first lady, Patience
Jonathan, over alleged money laundering.
Waripamo-Owei
Dudafa, who is facing corruption trial by the anti-graft agency made
the accusation in a petition to the National Human Rights Commission
(NHRC) claiming he was being deliberately punished by the commission because of his loyalty to the former president and his family, Premium Times reports.