The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) agents have refuted allegations that they assaulted Nollywood actress Helen Aduru.
Anaedoonline.ng previously reported that Helen claimed the EFCC broke into her Enugu home and brutalized her in a post uploaded on her Instagram profile on Saturday, September 3.
In a post on Instagram, the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, denounced the anti-graft agency’s operatives’ treatment of one of its members while also demanding compensation.
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The president said that the operatives had attacked the actress a few weeks earlier because she had refused to open the door so they could enter her compound.
He identified ADE and ABDULLAHI from the Enugu Zonal office as the two operators who performed the nefarious act on the actress.
The EFCC criticized Helen’s assertions in a statement issued on Sunday, branding her a publicity-seeking player whose badly written claim had crumbled in the face of the Commission’s indisputable evidence.
The anti-graft agency claimed in a statement titled “False and Misleading Video in Circulation on EFCC Operations” that the incident was blackmail and that they would not give in to it.
The statement read: The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to an online video trending on Instagram, from the handle of a certain “@Iamhelenaduru”, a self- styled actress, purporting, quite mischievously, an assault by operatives of the Commission.
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“Checks by the Commission, however, flagged Helen Aduru, an upcoming actress, as a mere publicity- seeking player, with a poorly- scripted claim that has fallen flat in the face of unassailable facts available to the Commission
“In her script, she was quick to include five names of officers she claimed came from the Cybercrime Section of the Enugu Command of the Commission. Characteristically, EFCC’s officers don’t wear name tags nor move around with bulldozer- shaped equipment to pull down security doors.
“Aduru claimed, rather strangely, that she was assisted by a little boy, to a Police Station at 3:44 am but met the station shut. It is important to note that Police Stations are not civil service ministries that close in the evening. Even more preposterous is the fact that she never went back, at daybreak, to lodge a complaint. More poignantly untenable is the fact that her purported assault of July 21, 2022, which has not been logged nearly two months later at the Police Station is only being brought to public glare on September 2, 2022!! Such a scene could only stand on a typical Nollywood fiction series.
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“Such claims by Aduru, like all other stranger- than- fiction, click-baiting, sympathy-seeking ploys, do not merit a response but for the need to avoid “silence is acquiescence” stance of mischief makers. Deeper checks on the matter only showed that, certain blackmailers could be bandying some known names in the Enugu Zonal Command to settle some scores.
“The Commission, strictly guided by its Standard Operational Procedure, would not succumb to blackmail or any sleight of hand by any character. The poorly- scripted video would be further analysed for more forensic details and possible legal action to dissuade those who seem to be making an industry of falsely accusing and maligning the Commission. Members of the public are enjoined to ignore Aduru’s claims. EFCC’s officers are not assaulters or terrorists.”
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