The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says one of its officers is currently being disciplined for being responsible for recording and leaking a video of ex-Anambra Governor, Willie Obiano while in the agency’s custody.
The footage, which went viral over the weekend, showed the former governor dressed in a shirt and shorts while in the EFCC’s remand facility.
In a statement on Monday, the anti-graft agency distanced itself from the trending video, saying that it is at variance with the established standard operating procedure of the Commission.
EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said a discreet investigation was quickly ordered upon discovery of the leak, adding that the probe revealed the errant officer behind the odious act.
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Uwujaren stressed that the individual is currently being subjected to appropriate disciplinary action.
This comes a few hours after the Chairman of the EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, revealed that the agency is yet to release the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, from its custody because he has yet to meet his bail conditions.
According to Mr Bawa, Obiano’s arrest by the EFCC was not politically motivated.
The agency’s boss stated that the ex-governor has since been granted administrative bail.
According to a source at the EFCC, the former Governor was arrested for alleged misappropriation of public funds.
Obiano was arrested last Thursday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, hours after handing over to Governor Charles Soludo.
According to the EFCC source, he was arrested for misappropriating N5bn Sure-P and N37 billion Security Vote funds, which were withdrawn in cash.
Parts of the funds were also allegedly diverted to finance political activities in the state, the source added.
The former governor, who has been on the Commission’s watchlist for months, was arrested on his way to Houston, Texas, in the United States.
