Festus Keyamo, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment
has denied ever prosecuting the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs,
Godswill Akpabio.
A report in The Guardian newspaper published on September 27 had
alleged that Mr Keyamo prosecuted Akpabio on behalf of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Keyamo, however, in a letter to the head of politics at The
Guardian, Anote Ajeluorou, sought a retraction of the report.
??. My refutal of all that social media
nonsense that I once prosecuted Senator Godswill Akpabio for graft
on behalf of the EFCC. I never did. https://t.co/qWTsDB6WKj[1]— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) October
7, 2019[2]
“In the said article, there was a clear factual inaccuracy when
you suggested that I was engaged sometime in the immediate past by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to prosecute Senator
Godswill Akpabio for alleged graft”.
“Nothing can be farther from the truth. I decided to keep a
dignified silence in the last few weeks when some mischievous
and/or ill-informed individuals kept spreading that narrative in
the social media.
The reason is that I do not always bother myself to respond to
factually inaccurate issues concerning me that are raised from
sources that are not credible news outlets, no matter how intense
the discussions or debates about those issues become in the social
media.
“You can then imagine my shock when a supposedly respectable
paper like The Guardian swallowed that narrative hook, line, and
sinker without the slightest effort at fact-checking.
“Even without searching on Google the cases I have prosecuted, a
simple telephone call as a journalist to the spokesperson of the
EFCC would have duly informed you that at no time was I ever
engaged by the EFCC to prosecute Senator Godswill Akpabio and I
never did. All the stories about that have been nothing but social
media nonsense.
As far as I can recollect, at no time was Senator Godswill
Akpabio charged or arraigned by the EFCC in any court of law for
any offence. So how come I was engaged to prosecute a non-existent
charge?
“Kindly retract that portion of your article, whilst I have
chosen to ignore all the other innuendoes and subliminal messages
you sought to pass across in the said article without hitting the
nail on the head.”
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