Music producer threatens to sue EFCC for parading him as “Yahoo Boy”
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An Abuja-based music producer and photographer, Mr Nasiru Ali,
popularly known as “Kozzographa”, on Sunday threatened to sue the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for wrongly calling him a
fraudster (Yahoo boy).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ali was among 10
suspected internet fraudsters paraded on May 17 by the EFCC operatives.
The EFCC personnel raided suspects residence at Favour Land Estate, Life Camp, Abuja.
According to the EFCC, they were arrested following a tip-off by an anonymous source.
The agency said that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded.
But Ali in a petition to the EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, on
May 31 demanded a compensation of N100 million and an unreserved apology
for arresting him wrongly and giving a libelous information to the
public about him.
The musician, through his lawyer, Mr Pelumi Olajengbensi, said that
he would drag the EFCC to court for refusing to retract the negative
publications about him after a seven-day ultimatum.
“He lost a contract of five million naira with United Global Resolve
for Peace (UNGREP), which he had been interviewed for and hitherto
offered unequivocally because the contractors became disturbed and
concerned by the publication thus doubtful of his reputation.
“He has been ostracised by his colleagues and associates as well as
senior associates who usually refer to him for jobs in the past, thereby
losing their trust and reference.
“He has been bombarded with a barrage of calls from friends and
family members calling his reputation to question, while expressing
their disappointment and indicating their intention to cut all
connection with him forthwith.
“His relationship with his intended life partner has been irreparably
strained by the negative publicity generated by the unlawful arrest,
particularly the publication on your media platform on same matter.
“The publication has led to close clients taking their jobs off him
and taking them to other persons thereby amounting to great level of
loss and in some cases varying level of indebtedness,” Ali’s lawyer
stated in the petition to EFCC.
Ali also claimed in the petition that his health and psychology had
been affected following the Gestapo way he was arrested and assaulted by
the commission operatives .
He said that the men that raided his home were dressed in black with no means of identifying them as officers of the EFCC.
The petitioner had given the EFCC seven days to meet his conditions or face legal action.
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