Some personal aides, including the domestic staff of the former Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, have clarified that no money was ever picked from house of their embattled boss at any point in time by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).
Speaking to newsmen at separate points, the aides said however that they were aware of attempts by the people they could identify, to plant some objects, including money around the house, ostensibly to implicate their boss.
The EFCC had recently alleged that its operatives have discovered the sum of $1 Million cash at the residence of embattled former Chief of Defence staff.
Badeh’s aides made it clear that the story of $1 Million was part of a grand design to nail the Adamawa born General.
According to them, Badeh could not have kept such a colossal amount of money in cash in his residence when he had all the opportunity to move it somewhere else; if it ever existed.
“Moreover, he does not have $1 Million to keep for anybody to find, having been surviving on charity, following the blockage of all his access to funds.”
This is even as Chief Badeh had himself repeatedly denied the report linking him with a so-called $1 Million cash in his residence, saying that he did not even have any such money and could not have kept what he did not have for the EFCC to pick.
Badeh was reported as challenging the EFCC to provide proofs linking him with the money, even as he alleged that he was being framed up in a seeming vendetta war against him by unnamed forces.
Badeh’s attorneys have expressed surprise that so far, no official reaction has come from the EFCC since the speculation gained currency in the media to the effect that the sum of $1 Million was picked up by its men from the residence of Badeh.
They said that what has been happening has been what they called ‘syndicated fresh angles’ being added to the report to embellish it as an issue in the media. [myad]
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