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Ex-Gov. Shema Blasts EFCC

ibrahim-shema-maguEx-Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State has taken the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to the cleaners for daring to declare him wanted over N74.6 billion alleged fraud…“Despite the incongruity in the way and manner the invitation was extended to me through a counsel – and also through a wrong address of the same counsel, and notwithstanding the fact that I was already billed to travel to Saudi Arabia for the lesser hajj (Umrah) on the appointment day, I cancelled all the engagements to honour the invitation with my counsel on the said June 28, 2016, only to be informed, around 10am on that day that the interview would no longer hold, as Mr. Hyecinth A. Edozie was out of Abuja, and that a new date, after Sallah, would be communicated.”

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“To date, the EFCC has not responded to the said letter, suggesting any date. As a senior citizen of this country, a legal practitioner of 32 years post-call experience, and a two-time governor of Katsina State, I not only feel seriously embarrassed, disturbed, surprised and confounded by the report sponsored by EFCC, but also feel sorry for our dear country.”

“I feel sorry for the pitiable situation we have found ourselves as Nigerians where and when a sacred institution like the EFCC is pressurized and used to sponsor fake, false, malicious, misleading and unfounded allegations against someone like me, who the EFCC has not at any time accused of fraud, embezzlement, inflation of contract, or any misdemeanour at all. The EFCC deliberately embarked on false propaganda against me and my person by positing that I have ignored several invitations which it extended to me.”