That popular politician, Sen. Iyiola Omisore has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is stale news. But millions of Nigerians don’t know how he was arrested. Be that as it may, we can tell you for free how the former deputy Governor of Osun State and Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was bundled into detention over N4.745 billion Dasukigate arms deal money.
Insiders at the EFCC disclosed to us that the politician has been evading arrest before now. Even when the EFCC wrote him a letter of invitation, he didn’t honour it. “We had intelligence report that Omisore was at his 1, Kainji Crescent in Maitama, Abuja. We set out at 6am to invite him but when we got there; we were told he was not in town. We went into the compound and gained access to the house. We started searching the rooms one by one. At a point, we discovered that the master’s bedroom was locked. We asked them to open it but they said, they had no key to it. Having been aware of our presence, Omisore had firmly locked up himself to evade arrest.”
“We surrounded the place with armed policemen and entered the master bedroom through the balcony. When we met him, we showed him a court warrant of arrest and a search warrant fully endorsed by a competent court. We searched his room afterwards and we discovered documents linking him to those companies used for laundering of money from ONSA, National Assembly and some firms which they forced to part with cash to fund political campaign. Some of the documents on landed properties which he bought with these slush funds.”
“When we finished the search, we showed him the warrant of arrest but he retired into a mild drama that he would not go to the EFCC office. ‘I will not follow you, only my corpse will follow you.’ “After then, we took him to the office and obtained a statement from him. During interrogation, he admitted that he is a director of some of the companies linked to him. ONSA, National Assembly and some firms that paid huge funds into the accounts of these companies. We have served him bail conditions, it is left to him to meet these terms to regain freedom. So far, we have detained him.”
We gathered that N1.310billion was traced to Omisore and three companies out of the N4,745 billion. Sources at EFCC squealed to us that the funds were remitted as follows: Fimex Gilt Limited (N160m) – 8/8/2014 in UBA; Metropolitan Consortium (N350m) – 9/7/14 in First Bank; Sawanara (N300m) – 1/8/14 in First Bank and Metropolitan Consortium (N350m) – 1/8/14 in First Bank.