EFCC agents are after my life and this is their plan - Usman Jibrin alleges
- Former Chief of Naval staff, Usman Jibrin, has said the EFCC is threatening his life
- The vice admiral said there were plans to plant incriminating evidence on his properties
- He wrote a letter to that effect, raising alarm as to the EFCC's alleged nefarious plan
Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin (rtd) who was former Chief of Naval Staff has raised alarm over alleged threat to his life by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The former chief is being prosecuted by the EFCC for graft and he has alleged that there is a plan to plant incriminating evidence on his properties by the agency.
In a letter to the acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, in which he copied Acting President Yemi Osibanjo among others, he challenged the EFCC, to explain the whereabouts of over 60 vessels arrested with stolen crude handed over to the commission under his watch as CNS.
Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin
According to the letter to Daily Trust, he said: “I regret to state that my life has been under threat by operatives of the EFCC, since my retirement from active service of the Nigerian Navy on the 14 July 2015.
“I decided to put my thought in writing because of information made available to me from very reliable sources that plans have been concluded to plant incriminating evidence against me by operatives of the EFCC.
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“I have observed that silence may not be golden after all in the face of some suspicious activities going around my properties by unknown elements. My life is at stake, my dignity is at stake, my integrity is at stake and my name is at stake."
Alleging that a cabal in the EFCC was behind the investigation, he said: “Your organisation is been used by a cabal, who are very uncomfortable with my freedom and threatened by my unblemished record as the former CNS, who fought them to a standstill in their illegal bunkering and oil theft.
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“It is worth noting that EFCC has conducted searches on me in eight locations without discovering incriminating evidence bordering on financial crimes. In most cases, my assets were destroyed in my absence, without a single apology from the commission or explanation as to why my properties were raided.”
Jibrin also added that in all eight searches, no warrants were produced. He further explained that the EFCC has already charged him to court over a navy guest house, which was a safe house bought by the navy under his watch.
However, EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren said Jibrin is a suspect under prosecution by the commission.
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He stated that the commission was not in the habit of planting evidence on suspects and anyone making such allegations is just flying a kite.
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