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The Commission established in 2004 empowered to prevent, investigate, prosecute and penalize economic and financial crimes and is charged with the responsibility of enforcing the provisions of other laws and regulations relating to economic and financial crimes.
In what appears to be an irony for an anti-graft agency, some of its officers, are being accused of corrupt practices, which includes refusal to investigate, cover-ups and bribe collection.
Per Second News gathered that one Alhaji Abdul-Rauf Olanrewaju Iliasu, and a deputy Ambassador at the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nation in New York have fleeced members of the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities International several millions of Naira.
Investigations pieced together by Per Second News shows that investors in the organization paid money into a bank account (names withheld) to help people with disabilities in Nigeria by building a prototype community-based rehabilitation centers for disabled people in six geographical zones of the country.
According to a letter with Reference number ZB/LB/APG/048/09/2014 an advance payment of, (N210, 000,000.00) two hundred and ten million naira was paid into another bank (names withheld) account number 1140066501.
It is believed that the country’s envoy deliberately conspired with Iliasu, using the Office of the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN in New York, names of Nigerians with Disabilities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Developments, Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Offices of the Special Advisers to the Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Ethics and Values, to engage in this corrupt practice.
According to the group, this class of individuals successfully, defrauded innocent Nigerian investors, who needed to help rehabilitate and take care of Nigerians with Disabilities.
According to the president of the organization, Chief Eric Ndubueze Ufom.``It is very unfortunate that, Nigerians in very high government positions, Business, Banking and other positions, who Nigerians trusted, were the actual people, who unprofessionally, unethically and immorally, has been directly or indirectly, involved in perfecting and legalizing, corruption in Nigeria,
In a written statement the group alleged that a certain EFCC top officer is in the know of the corrupt practices committed by the envoy and Iliasu.
``But he, knowingly or deliberately looked the other way; and has failed to bring them to justice".
The group said that the commission, in dealing with the serious issues of constitutional concerns, for Nigerians with Disabilities, the two persons engaged themself into discrimination against people with disabilities.
They also accused the envoy of grossly violating the mandates set by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
``Nigerians with disabilities living in the United States are pleading with President Muhammadu Buhari to sack and replace the commission’s top officers with credible officers.’’
``On October, 2012, and thereafter, Nigerians with Disabilities Living in the United and their DPOs, officially presented to President Goodluck Jonathan and his administration, through the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations, represented by the deputy Ambassador, program to establish, Disability-Inclusive Community-Bases Institute of Rehabilitation Centers for independence Living, Post-Polio Clinic..
``The Ambassador recruited Iliasu through his Brother one Alhaji Shetima, to take charge of representing him in establishing and executing our program or project mentioned above, emphasis added to criminal act of, “Theft of Intellectual Property.”
``On July 17, 2013, during the 5th Session of the UN Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the envoy , while representing the Federal Republic of Nigeria at this UN General Assembly, used the forum to jump start his unprofessional, undiplomatic, unethical and immoral intent to fraudulently use the names of Nigerians with Disabilities, in conspiracy with Iliasu, to engage into corruptions, where he stated;
“In order to make life meaningful for Nigerians living with disabilities, the Government has approved the construction of a National Rehabilitation Institute and Resource Centre. When completed, the Centre is expected to become a hub for the West-African Region in the area of research pertaining to the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.”
``The Ambassador who was fully aware that there was no such approval made by the Federal Republic of Nigeria or its agencies to construct a National Rehabilitation Institute and Resource Center, nor was there any kind of meeting held by the Government to establish such center.
``And the Ambassador knew that he cannot be able to produce any kind of minutes of meeting where such discussion and decision took place, but he knowingly or deliberately and intelligently, mislead and misinformed the world with such wrong information, due to his selfish reasons to commit fraud with his statement.
``On December 3, 2013, Iliasu, attended the International Day of Persons with Disability event at Abuja, with the intent to recruit Nigerians with Disabilities for use in perfecting their fraud. He wasted no time to succeed in recruiting some, which he used to establish within ten days, Federal Civil Service Staff with Disabilities Multipurpose Cooperative Society, at Abuja Nigeria.’’
The group said that Iliasu successfully, defrauded innocent, Nigerian investors, who wanted to help rehabilitate and take care of Nigerians with Disabilities, more than 3 billion Naira, by convincing them, with the copy of the Ambassador’s July 17, 2013, statement at the UN Headquarters in New York.
They claimed that through the aforementioned Iliasu’s address, with the words, “The Presidency…,” our Nigerian unsuspecting investors were unaware that Alhaji Iliasu, has nothing to do with the Presidency or Former President Goodluck Jonathan.
``EFCC investigative staff, Mr. Ibrahim, Phone numbers, 08065755551, 08095755551, 08085585551, Mr. Titus of the ICPC, Phone number 08170000670, ICPC Mr. Emmanuel Phone Number 08058849737, Mr. Sunday Obua of the IGP Office Phone number 08033129778.
``And the National Human Rights Commission Mr. Omodara phone number 08034104538, did excellent jobs, by conducting very successfully through and extensive investigations, showing valid, debatable and variable volumes or mountains of evidence.
``And proves beyond reasonable doubt, which established prima facie entitlements for Iliasu and the Ambassador to be arrested, charged and prosecuted for knowingly or deliberately and intelligently conspiring with each other to engage in corruptions and defrauding unsuspecting innocent Nigerians investors of billions of Naira.
``Pastor Emmanuel Oguntuyi, Head of Chancry, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations, Headquarters New York and the Mission’s Attorney of records, also conducted their investigation, as organized by the Ambassador for use in covering himself up.
``But then, Pastor Oguntuyi refused to cover up the crime and wrote good report. His New York Phone number is; 6462709737.’’
They added that Dr. Sarah Jibril, Special Adviser to the Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Ethics and Values and the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, issued, published disclaimers by several Nigerian Newspapers, against Iliasu, for using their office to defraud innocent Nigerian investors.
Iliasu, knowingly or deliberately, impersonated that he was the Special Assistant to the Special Adviser to the Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Ethics and Values. He successfully, defrauded unsuspecting Nigerian investor of 40 Million Naira.
Dr. Sarah Jibril, as soon as she became aware of this fraud, turned Iliasu to the IGP Office of the Fraud taskforce, who arrested and charged him.
Iliasu was convicted and sent to Prison. He was thereafter bailed out of Prison by Justice Begore. This case is still pending at Abuja Court and Alhaji Iliasu refused to appear before the Judge, when ORDERED several times to Appear before the Judge.
``The EFCC Boss, in dealing with these serious issues of constitutional concerns, for Nigerians with Disabilities, he knowingly and deliberately, engaged, himself into discrimination against people with disabilities, disparate treatments, stonewalling of true investigations, obstruction of justice, concealing and covering up facts, and selective enforcements of the EFCC rules and regulations; and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Law,’’ they said
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