FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan has
hit back at the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Farida Waziri, for claiming that she was sacked because she
refused to back down on a suspect during the oil subsidy scandal.
Waziri
had in an interview with journalist recently in Lagos reacted to
revelation of alleged grand corruption that took place under the
Jonathan’s administration.
“I’m only glad that those things
didn’t happen under my watch as the EFCC Chairman because it would have
been too traumatic for me.
“And that is why if I see President
Jonathan today, I will kneel down to thank him for the honour done me by
removing me as the EFCC Chairman at the time he did” she said.
“My first strong premonition of what was ahead was when I began the probe of the monumental oil subsidy fraud going on then”.
“I
came to Lagos on a vital intelligence on the subsidy scam and as soon
as I arrested a key culprit, I got a call from the Presidential Villa
asking me to release the suspect, because, in their words, ‘he is our
person’, but I refused to let him off and days after, I was removed from
office”.
Responding, Jonathan said Waziri told lies by making such claims.
He reacted through his verified twitter handle @GEJonathan.
The
former president who said crime has no statute bar challenged Waziri to
name the person or the company she was investigating when she was
stopped.
Jonathan said if the former EFCC boss failed to do so, she was simply hired to attack his personality.
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