The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited social media influencer Martins Otse aka VeryDarkMan and crossdresser Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky to its Lagos directorate to explain bribery allegations against the commission’s personnel.
This comes after VeryDarkMan shared a video on social media where Bobrisky claimed he gave some EFCC officers N15 million to drop money laundering charges against him.
The crossdresser was to be arraigned in April on six charges bordering on naira abuse and laundering of over N127 million.
The money was said to have been paid into his company’s account number 2830002929, domiciled in Ecobank Plc, between September 2021 and April 2024.
But the EFCC dropped the money laundering charges and prosecuted him on abuse of the naira.
EFCC’s lawyer Suleiman Suleiman told the Federal High Court in Lagos that the anti-graft agency had an “agreement with the defendant”.
In a statement on Tuesday, however, EFCC’s spokesman Dele Oyewale said Bobrisky and VeryDarkMan are being expected at the commission’s Lagos directorate to provide more information on the allegations.
Mr Oyewale said, “The EFCC chairman has ordered an immediate investigation of alleged bribery allegations imputed to some officers of the Commission by Idris Okuneye (a.ka. Bobrisky) in a viral video circulating across the country.
“Okuneye, an ex-convict, had alleged in the video powered by VeryDarkMan that some unnamed officers of the EFCC collected the sum of N15,000,000 from him to drop money laundering charges against him.
“In a swift reaction, the EFCC’s boss has constituted a Team of Investigators to critically look into the allegations. To this end, the Commission hereby invites both Okuneye and Otse to make themselves available at its Lagos Directorate to assist investigators in unearthing the alleged bribery.”
