EFCC clarifies raid on Atiku sons’ home, says Orji’s son was the target

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied raiding the home of the son of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.

The anti-graft agency said it was the home of the son of former governor of Abia State and current senator, Theodore Orji that its detectives searched.

Earlier reports had claimed that detectives of the commission had raided the home of the opposition presidential candidate.

But in a series of tweets on its Twitter handle, the EFCC claimed that the home of Orji’s son, Ogbonna, and his friend, Kelvin Ilonah, who were arrested as part of investigations into the senator’s alleged embezzlement of billions of naira during his eight-year tenure as governor was the one raided.

“The former Abia governor has been under investigations by the EFCC for money laundering activities, which was discovered to have been carried out through his sons.

“The EFCC had been on the trail of cars allegedly bought by the sons, and last Friday the cars were traced to a nightclub in Abuja, where operatives waited patiently through the night to arrest the owners – Ogbonna and his friend, Kelvin Ilonah.

“They were arrested about 5am on Saturday, and they led operatives to their three-bedroom flat apartment, where documents retrieved showed that it was rented at a rate of N13m per annum.

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“They have so far given useful information to the EFCC, which is aiding in investigations. It should be made clear that the EFCC never ‘went after’ Atiku’s sons, neither was Atiku’s son arrested by the EFCC,” the anti-graft agency said.

According to EFCC investigations has shown that Orji used his son to launder funds and as a result its detectives decided to extend the probe to him.

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