The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that a former director of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), Letam Wiwa, was never arrested over his alleged involvement in the $2.1 billion arms deal.
The anti-graft agency said on Monday, that the widespread reports were far from the truth, and that Wiwa is not in custody.
According to Premium Times, the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren stated that: “I can’t find any such detainee in our records. I can’t find anything on him,” he said.
Meanwhile, the news platform also reached out to Wiwa- who said he was at his office in Oshodi, Lagos, noting that he was neither invited for questioning nor arrested by the EFCC.
He was quoted to have said: “I just woke up this morning, and people started calling me that they saw reports of my arrest in the papers.”
“I was really surprised. And that must be a magic arrest. I am now sitting in my office in Oshodi, Lagos. The papers were just too audacious. They didn’t even ask the army whether any such arrest happened. There was not even an invitation, let alone an arrest.”
Wiwa was also reported to have noted that the operations of the DMI has nothing to do with procurement of equipment for the army.
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