The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has denied invading the home of singer John Njeng-Ngeng aka Skales.
The singer had on Tuesday morning alleged that some EFCC officials invaded his home with guns and hammers, and harassed him and some of his boys.
So @officialEFCC pulled up to my house with 3 men with guns and some with sticks and hammers lol, they broke my back door while I was sleeping on the bed with my 6month old daughter, imagine I had a panic attack Cz of my health issuesā¦. Is this not a crime ?
— SKALES (@youngskales) October 10, 2023
But in an exclusive phone call with PUNCH, the EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, stated that the claims were unfounded, adding that officials of the anti-graft agency do not operate in such a manner.
He said, “Number 1, we don’t invade. Number 2, we don’t conduct any raids. Number 3, there are ways and rules to identify a regular EFCC operative. “So, to all intents and purposes, all of his claims, they are totally removed from what an EFCC operation looks like.”
He also called on the singer to show evidence of his claims.
“And I will want him to come forward, if he has photo evidence or video evidence, to show that’s it’s an EFCC thing, because we don’t have such things”.
However, Skales documented video evidences of when the EFCC raided his house and that of his neigbours.
Imagine this people pulling up like this to a room where my 6month old and my daughter and her were sleeping pic.twitter.com/RCghRsgz2b
— SKALES (@youngskales) October 10, 2023
These are videos of same thing my neighbors experienced pic.twitter.com/jxisp1LSZt
— SKALES (@youngskales) October 10, 2023
- Moment Suspected EFCC operatives broke into Singer - Skalesās home in the early hours of the night over fraud allegations.
— Postsubman (@Postsubman) October 10, 2023
pic.twitter.com/f7rU9KRHFG
— SKALES (@youngskales) October 10, 2023
This is a video my neighbors recorded pic.twitter.com/iaC55OJMYW
— SKALES (@youngskales) October 10, 2023
Few hours later, the EFCC said they arrested 2 suspected internet fraudsters during the raid on Skales‘ house.
EFCC Arrests Two Suspected Internet FraudstersĀ in Musician's Residence
— EFCC Nigeria (@officialEFCC) October 10, 2023
Operatives of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday,Ā October 10,Ā 2023, arrested two suspected internet fraudsters atĀ House F10,Ā Victoria Crest 4, Lekki,Ā Lagos.ā¦ pic.twitter.com/6DQ4cHdikp