Erstwhile Chairman of Nigeria
Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Dr. Ngozi Olejeme has said her invitation
and detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over
allegation of N69bn fraud has nothing to do with former President Goodluck
Jonathan Campaign Finance Committee.
She stated that contrary to media
reports that she was arrested, she willingly submitted herself before the
commission to clear the wrong allegations made against her.
In a statement on Tuesday by her
Media Aide, Stanley Imoko, Olojeme disclosed that her detention was about where
she worked as part time chairman of NSITF.
In the statement Olejeme stressed
that contrary to EFCC allegation, no money was traced to her account, neither
was any money given to the Jonathan campaign organisation or the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) by her.
The statement reads: “Our
attention has been drawn to erroneous media reports about the circumstance
surrounding the issues Dr Ngozi Olejeme is currently having with the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
“While we recognise the constitutional
right of the media to inform the public, we are inclined to set the records
straight by stating what has transpired so far between Dr. Ngozi Olejeme and
the EFCC.
“Dr. Olejeme who was declared
wanted three months ago by EFCC for alleged diversion of several billions of
Naira in NSITF where she was a part time Chairman during the last
administration turned herself in voluntarily to EFCC on Monday the 18th of
December, 2017 in order to clear her name which the alleged story of diversion
tried to smear.
”Dr Olejeme was appointed a part
time chairman of the agency when the agency was moribund and comatose having
been divested of its core responsibility of managing pension funds of Nigerian
workers by the New Reform Pension Act of 2004.
“Dr Olejeme’s dexterity saw the
enactment of a new law by the National Assembly that gave some responsibilities
( like social scheme compensation for employees who suffer injury or death in
the course of their duties) to the agency and which resurrected the agency back
to life.
“The agency that had only two
functional offices when she was appointed witnessed a tremendous growth both in
offices across the length and breadth of Nigeria and personnel from 80
employees to about 7000 by the time she exited from the board.”
Mr Imoko, in the statement,
insisted that Dr. Olejeme was at NSITF as part time chairman and putting extra
effort to grow the agency which made it a toast today, she was unaware that the
management of the agency were busy diverting some of the monies of the agency
to themselves.
“Dr. Olejeme got to know about
this when she was declared wanted by EFCC for alleged diversion of several
billions of Naira by her and the management.
“More shocking to her was the
conspiracy of some of the management staff of the agency to heap all their
nefarious activities on her head while she was away on the demonic
understanding that she may not come back to defend herself, having known of her
health challenge while abroad.”
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