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Speaker 1: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCAC has sttled that its

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fusel then moved into a Ban radio station on Monday

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evening to effect the arrest of primetime program host Fevor

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a co following allegation of fraudsheet allegedly committed EFCAC. In

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a statement on Tuesdays, said the managing director of the

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radio station, two security guards who locked the gut against

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EFCC officials were arrested alongside Fervor Eku. The EFCAC statement

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rates on Monday October fourteenth, twenty twenty four, a tale

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of operatings of the Enugou Zonal Directorate of the Economic

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and Financial Crimes Commission EFSAC, comprising four officers were at

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of Ban Radio ninety four point five FM Enugul to

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invite one Favor Echu, host of Primetime, a program running

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at the station. Eco is being investigated by the Enbou

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Zonal Directorate of the EFCC in an alleged seven hundred

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million nyros ponzi scheme from involving about fifty fifty victims.

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According to the victims, a co alleged miller of them

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into investing in a scheme life trading in a company

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Leveraged Index Limited, where the were offered returns on investments

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of ten percent of their capital after a period of time.

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The victims alleged that after investing their money into the

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company located at number one Colliery Street, Opera Avenue, Ennubu State,

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the company closed its office with no return on investment

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or principal returned to the victims. A co allegedly invited

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the victims into the business and she remained the only

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link the victims could hold. At the radio station, operatives

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of the commission holding a warrant of arrest for a

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cop identified themselves as officers of the EFCC. They informed

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the managing director of the station, ban called O Wyoming,

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about their mission. However, in a rather strange twist, a

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staff of the station called the chairman of the radio station,

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who ordered that the gates of the building be locked

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in and out, thereby holding the officer’s hostage. First. With

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such hostility, the call for a rescue team, which eventually

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arrested O Wayoming a call and the two security guards

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who locked them within the premises of the station. A

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call had to be trailed to the station for arrest

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because the nature of the fraudulent dealings necessitated a stinct

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operation that would foreclose her escape or go on the ground.

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She was neither arrested while on earn nor any destruction

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of the lawful activities of the radio station took place.

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No equipment of the station was stampered with, and she

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has since been released after being allowed to make a

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statement at the enegu office. O’yoy and the two security

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guards were arrested for obstruction of justice as the initial

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prevented the operatives from carrying out their official duties. They

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also led statements to that effect and have since been released.

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The AFCAC holds the media in high esteem boat as

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the fourth est of the realm and the critical stakeholder

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in the fight against economic and financial crimes and other

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arts of corruption. But the precipitate and unlawful obstruction of

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officers of the Commission from carrying out their duties by

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staff of the radio station is unacceptable. Besides the professional

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credentials of a cop a principal suspect in the Ponzi

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scheme to the tune of seven hundred million neyers afflcteen

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fifty inducent Nigerians are questionable. The Commission hereby calls on

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the International Press Institute IPI and the Nigerian Union of

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Journalists and u J to investigate the conduct of the

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STACIAL in the light of integrity and ethical professional practice.

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The le o yoae Health Media and Publicity stated in

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a statement, Sasuaron Neede bringin you brings in a more

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digital way.