Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana, has immediately resigned his membership of the Editorial Board of ThisDay newspaper, over reports linking him with corruption.
In a press statement made available to Post-Nigeria, on Friday, Falana denied media reports that alleged that he influenced the appointment of Ola Olukoyede, the Chief of Staff to Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The media report also alleged that Olukoyede had been a Lawyer in Falana’s office, and that the anti-graft body had given him one of the properties forfeited to the Federal Government by ex-Governor, DSP Alamiyeseigha.
“In the first place, Mr. Olukoyede has never worked in my law firm. I met him for the first time about two years ago. Having not known him or worked with him closely, I could not have recommended him for any position of responsibility either in the EFCC, or in another public office. The second allegation is equally a figment of the fecund imagination of the fictitious writers.”
He noted that, although the address of the property allegedly given to him by the EFCC was not stated in the story, it is public knowledge that all the funds and other assets forfeited by the late Governor, were handed to the Bayelsa State Government, sometime in 2010, by the then management of the EFCC.
“Based on my belief in public accountability, I have never said that the properties recovered by the EFCC, should not be investigated,” Falana said.
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