Reports credited to The Nation have it that
former minister of state for Defence, Musiliu
Obanikoro, has opened up on the role of his wife
in the allegations leveled against him.
The former minister’s wife, Alhaja Moroophat
Omolola, had been arrested by officers of the
Department of State Security (DSS)
on the orders of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) to see if they could
find some evidence with her to prosecute the
husband.
And Obanikoro has now asked the anti-graft
agency to resist the temptation of “persecuting”
his wife, Moroophat, insisting that she remains
innocent.
He described her as “an innocent woman who has
no dealings at all with any of the businesses that
they are investigating and totally unaware of the
alleged transactions.”
Obanikoro, the gubernatorial candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 state
election in Lagos also tacitly pleaded with the
anti-graft agency, explaining that she suffers
from high blood pressure and other heart-related
sicknesses,
“We are saddened by the fact that the media was
awash with false and conflicting information
about the invitation of Senator Obanikoro’s wife.
“Ordinarily, we considered ignoring these
concocted lies but for the sake of discerning and
right thinking public, hence the need to straighten
matters.
“First, Alhaja Moroophat has always been in the
country managing her businesses as against the
lie that she sneaked in last week from the United
States.
“Second, No documents were found in her
possession and the lie that she was arrested
while trying to evacuate documents is a
fabrication and can only survive in their warped
and distorted minds. It should also be noted that
the officials only came to invite her for
questioning and as against the phrase that she
was whisked away. Her driver actually drove her
in her own car to the office of the DSS.
“Third, it was shamefully reported that the DSS
were involved because there were so many armed
policemen guiding her. This is another fabricated
lie. Even when he was serving as minister, his
family never enjoyed any police protection let
alone after leaving office and as a woman who is
above board in all her dealings, she does not
need one.
“Finally, we are using this medium to call on the
officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission to resist from persecuting an
innocent woman who has no dealings at all with
any of the businesses that they are investigating
and totally unaware of the alleged transactions,”
a statement issued on Friday read.
The EFCC informed, after the arrest, that she was
picked up in connection to funds diverted from the
office of the national security adviser.
According to Sahara Reporters, she was
apprehended on Thursday, July 14 in front of her
husband’s house located on Layi Ajayi-Bembe
Street in Parkview Estate, Ikoyi in Lagos.
former minister of state for Defence, Musiliu
Obanikoro, has opened up on the role of his wife
in the allegations leveled against him.
The former minister’s wife, Alhaja Moroophat
Omolola, had been arrested by officers of the
Department of State Security (DSS)
on the orders of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) to see if they could
find some evidence with her to prosecute the
husband.
And Obanikoro has now asked the anti-graft
agency to resist the temptation of “persecuting”
his wife, Moroophat, insisting that she remains
innocent.
He described her as “an innocent woman who has
no dealings at all with any of the businesses that
they are investigating and totally unaware of the
alleged transactions.”
Obanikoro, the gubernatorial candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 state
election in Lagos also tacitly pleaded with the
anti-graft agency, explaining that she suffers
from high blood pressure and other heart-related
sicknesses,
“We are saddened by the fact that the media was
awash with false and conflicting information
about the invitation of Senator Obanikoro’s wife.
“Ordinarily, we considered ignoring these
concocted lies but for the sake of discerning and
right thinking public, hence the need to straighten
matters.
“First, Alhaja Moroophat has always been in the
country managing her businesses as against the
lie that she sneaked in last week from the United
States.
“Second, No documents were found in her
possession and the lie that she was arrested
while trying to evacuate documents is a
fabrication and can only survive in their warped
and distorted minds. It should also be noted that
the officials only came to invite her for
questioning and as against the phrase that she
was whisked away. Her driver actually drove her
in her own car to the office of the DSS.
“Third, it was shamefully reported that the DSS
were involved because there were so many armed
policemen guiding her. This is another fabricated
lie. Even when he was serving as minister, his
family never enjoyed any police protection let
alone after leaving office and as a woman who is
above board in all her dealings, she does not
need one.
“Finally, we are using this medium to call on the
officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission to resist from persecuting an
innocent woman who has no dealings at all with
any of the businesses that they are investigating
and totally unaware of the alleged transactions,”
a statement issued on Friday read.
The EFCC informed, after the arrest, that she was
picked up in connection to funds diverted from the
office of the national security adviser.
According to Sahara Reporters, she was
apprehended on Thursday, July 14 in front of her
husband’s house located on Layi Ajayi-Bembe
Street in Parkview Estate, Ikoyi in Lagos.
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