Alleged EFCC Investigation of Okonjo-Iweala:

We want to clarify that some of the media
reports alleging that the EFCC is investigating former
Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, are misleading
and untrue. This is clear from eye witness accounts of the
Budget 2016 presentation by the EFCC at the House of
Representatives and gaps in the reported stories.
The headlines are a misrepresentation of what the EFCC
Chairman actually said during the event.
While the headlines claimed that the EFCC Chairman, in
response to a question by an APC, member Hon Razak
Atunwa, stated that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is under investigation,
the actual words quoted in the same reports told a very
different story.
His words:
“Very soon we will go into the petroleum industry. Such
investigation requires that we have to build capacity, we
have to bring in experts to enable us tackle what we are
doing properly and the investigation must be conducted
properly. We have internal lawyers and external lawyers. We
have to pay insurance…”
The words said to have been spoken by the EFCC Chairman
cannot support the lurid headlines that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is
under investigation by the EFCC.
The Nigerian media plays an important role in our
democracy and we urge them to be fair, balanced and
factual in their reports.