Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deleted an Instagram post quoting a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, as admitting to stealing $9 billion and begging President Bola Tinubu for clemency to return to Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that the post, which had gone viral on social media and published by a section of the media (Gatekeepers News not included), claimed that the former minister spoke in an interview with journalists in the United Kingdom.
The unsigned post had however been pulled down from the anti-graft agency’s official Instagram handle.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, denied the report, while noting that the report didn’t emanate from nor was it signed by the anti-graft agency.
“The report is not from the EFCC. Anything that is not signed by me is not from us (the EFCC),” Oyewale said.
Allison-Madueke who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration fled the country following her prosecution by the EFCC over alleged money laundering.
