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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied paying the whistle-blower that was said to have provided the information leading to the recovery of about $43 million in an apartment in Osborne, Ikoyi, Lagos State, Arise News247 reports.
This was disclosed by Wilson Uwujaren, the spokesman for EFCC in reaction to the rumours making round on social media that the young man has been paid, quoting Mr. Ibrahim Magu, EFCC acting chairman.
Uwujaren, categorically said that the payment has not been made.
In his word:
“What Magu said at the 7th Session of the Council of State Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in Vienna, Austria, was that citizens should be encouraged to embrace whistle blowing because of the incentives attached
“To illustrate this, he stated that the the gentleman who provided the information that triggered the huge recovery at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi was already a millionaire based on the incentive in the whistle blower policy where information providers are entitled to between 2.5 and 5 % of the recovered sum”, Uwujaren explained.
He further added, “We are currently working on the young man because this is just a man who has not seen one million Naira of his own before. So he is under counselling on how to make good use of the money and also the security implication. We don’t want anything bad to happen to him after taking delivery of his entitlement. He is national pride”.
“Magu never said that the young man has been paid. The Commission is not even directly responsible for the payment of rewards to whistleblowers, he clarified.
Uwujaren concluded that “there is also no controversy about the exact amount recovered in the operation which was streamed live, the first of its kind, and witnessed by the whistle-blower, security at the Towers and representative of the Agency which claimed ownership of the money”
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