The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday denied media reports which claimed the anti-graft agency arrested former director of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) and brother to late Ken Saro Wiwa, Major General Letam Wiwa.The agency’s spokesperson, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said the former DMI’s name was not on the list of those detained over the $2.1 billion arms deal. “I cannot find any such detainee in our records. I cannot find anything on him,” he said.
When contacted, Wiwa, who is currently the deputy commandant at the Armed Forces Resettlement Centre, Oshodi, Lagos. said he was in his office and has neither been invited nor arrested
“I just woke up this morning, and people started calling me that they saw reports of my arrest in the papers. I was really surprised.
And that must be a magic arrest. I am now sitting in my office in Oshodi, Lagos. The papers were just too audacious.
They did not even ask the army whether any such arrest happened. There was not even an invitation, let alone an arrest,” Wiwa said.
Yesterday, Daily Sun published the report, on General Wiwa, which, at the time of going to press, left no doubt, but fresh facts, have indicated otherwise.
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