The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has responded to criticisms for concealing the identity of the owner of the vast Abuja estate forfeited to the federal government on Monday.
PREMIUM TIMES reported Monday how EFCC, Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption agency, secured the final forfeiture of the estate in Abuja, the largest single-asset recovery since the agency’s inception in 2003.
The commission achieved this through an order of final forfeiture issued by a court in Abuja Monday.
The recovered asset is a vast estate in Abuja measuring 150,500 square metres with 753 units of duplexes and other apartments.
But EFCC refused to disclose its owner in jts statement announcing the unprecedented asset recovery on Monday.
This has fuelled speculation of cover-up among Nigerians.
Response
In a statement on Tuesday, Dele Oyewale, the spokesperson for the EFCC condemned the allegation of cover-up of the owner of the estate levelled against it by Omowole Sowore,…
