Posted on: 05:12 Fri, 26 Feb 2016



The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has reportedly
begun the investigation of the new
Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye
Ogunwusi, and his company,
Metropole Interproject Limited, over
an alleged N400 million forgery.

A frontline human rights activist, ,
Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman,
Executive Chairman, Centre for
Human Rights and Social Justice
(CHRSJ), whose petition led to the
investigation, disclosed that he has
been invited by the anti-graft
agency to come and shed more light
on the petition.

The petition dated Monday, 2nd
November, 2015 entitled “Request
for Prosecution of Prince Enitan
Adeyeye Ogunwusi and his
Company named Metropole
Interproject Limited for the
Offence of forgery, Fraudulent
Conversion and Obtaining the sum
of N400 million by false Pretence”
was forwarded to the EFCC
Chairman and received on Friday,
November 6, 2015. Copies were also
sent to President Muhammadu
Buhari, Transparency International
(TI), Embassy of the United
Kingdom (UK), as well as those of
the United States of America (USA)
and Republic of Canada.

The petition was supported with the
series of evidence, including a
petition letter dated 7th September,
2015 which authored by a Senior
Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr.
Rotimi Jacobs of Rotimi Jacobs & Co
Chambers.

Comrade Sulaiman said in a signed
statement issued yesterday in Lagos
that he received a phone call from
an EFCC official advising his group
to report at the commission’s
Economic and Governance Crime
(EGC 1) department in Lagos this
week.

According to him, “The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) has invited us and we are
going to appear before it this week
to substantiate our position on the
subject matter. Our belief is that to
every logical mind, the gold is gold,
regardless of whether a Prince
or beggar, is holding it in his hand.

There is need for inculcation of
moral value to our society through
the palace in every community in
the land and anybody that would
occupy the position of authority
should come with integrity in order
to serve as a good example to
younger generation.

“It is also our belief that if you are
preaching equity, you must come
with clean hand. Worshiping of
money and world materials
increases the social vices in the
country today which makes the
corruption to be on the increase
geometrically. We don’t have any
personal grudge
against Oba Enitan Adeyeye
Ogunwusi because we believe that
God makes a leader but we want
justice to be done on any issue of
this nature as it has been part of
our stand. Anybody alleges of any
wrong doing needs to clear his or
her name first before occupying
any exalted position. It is because
Nigeria as a country has been
eroded of moral values where
brigandage takes the order of the
day.”

Comrade Sulaiman urged EFCC to
also “invite Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, who
authored the first petition on the
matter, and as well as Professor
Gabriel Olawoyin, the head of
Olawoyin & Olawoyin Chambers, to
come and state their position on
the mind-boggling issue.”