The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced the investigation of the new Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and his company, Metropole Interproject Limited, over his involvement in an alleged N400 million forgery.
A frontline human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, the Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), filed the petition against the Oba last year.
The petition dated Monday 2nd November, 2015 entitled “Request for Prosecution of Prince Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi and his Company named Metropole Interproject Limited for the Offence of forgery, Fraudulent Conversion and Obtaining the sum of N400 million by false Pretence” was forwarded to the EFCC Chairman and received on Friday, November 6, 2015.
Copies were also sent to President Muhammadu Buhari, Transparency International (TI), Embassy of the United Kingdom (UK), as well as the United States of America (USA) and Republic of Canada.
The petition was supported with the series of evidence, including a petition letter dated 7th September, 2015 which was authored by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Rotimi Jacobs of Rotimi Jacobs & Co Chambers.
Comrade Sulaiman confirmed in a signed statement issued on Monday in Lagos that he received a phone call from an EFCC official advising his group to report at the commission’s Economic and Governance Crime (EGC 1) department in Lagos this week.
Source: May Audu
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