{"id":13774,"date":"2018-12-11T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T08:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13774"},"modified":"2018-12-11T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T08:49:24","slug":"we-did-not-raid-arrest-atikus-sons-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13774","title":{"rendered":"We did not raid, arrest Atiku’s sons – EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

By EFCC Media and Publicity Unit.\u00a0<\/strong>Abuja
\nWe have received several calls and email messages asking us to confirm the arrest of the sons of the Presidential Candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as being alleged in some quarters.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some only said we raided the apartments of Atiku\u2019s sons looking for foreign currencies. This is nothing but another tales by moonlight.
\nIt is in the news that we have been investigating the former Abia governor, Senator Theodore Orji over alleged N27 Billion Naira money laundering. In the course of investigation, we discovered that he laundered part of the money through his sons. We have been on the trail of some of the purchases made by his son including the cars the boys allegedly bought.
\nLast Friday, we traced one of the cars to a Nite Club in Abuja. In order not to cause panic, we waited until the business of the club was over and when the owner of the suspected car came to enter to take off, we arrested him and his friend who has a similar brand of car. That was about 5am on Saturday, December 8, 2018.
\nThe two boys we arrested were Ogbonna Orji, 32, and Kelvin Ilonah. While Orji\u2019s Car, a Range Rover is valued at about N100 million, Ilonah\u2019s car also a Range Rover, is valued at about N35 Million.
\nIn the course of further interrogation, the two boys led us to their apartment, three flats, and documents retrieved from the apartment showed it was rented for N13 million each per annum.
\nAnother brand new Prado Jeep, a 2017 model was recovered from the boys in the compound. The two boys in question gave useful information to the Commission which is helping in our further investigation.
\nThe EFCC, as a responsible organisation is abreast of the establishment mandate and we shall not deviate from such mandate.
\nWe never went after Atiku\u2019s sons neither were Atiku\u2019s sons among the two boys arrested. There is no link whatsoever to Atiku.
\nOnly last week, the people\u2019s Democratic Part, PDP was alleged to have raised alarm that the Commission blocked and or froze the accounts of the Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP, Peter Obi. Again, this was another lie which we immediately punctured as there was no truth in it whatsoever, to the accusation. Till now, only silence has prevailed from the camp of the accusers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By EFCC Media and Publicity Unit.\u00a0Abuja We have received several calls and email messages asking us to confirm the arrest of the sons of the Presidential Candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as being alleged in some quarters.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some only said we raided the apartments of Atiku\u2019s sons looking for foreign currencies. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}