Aeogho Dokpesi, Daar Communication (Ray Power and AIT) founder, has
explained what transpired on Tuesday 1 December 2015 when the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invited him.
In
a statement signed by the management of DAAR Communications Plc, he
said that around 2.00pm that day, the Ag. Chairman of the EFCC, Alhaji
Ibrahim Magu, through a phone call, invited him to the Commission.
On
getting there, he was requested to, “shed more light on some payments
that were made to him through the office of the erstwhile National
Security Adviser to the former President, Malam Sambo Dasuki.”
Dokpesi
explained to the EFCC officials that the N2.1 billion that he collected
from the former NSA was payment for for publicity and media political
campaigns during the 2015 General Elections.”
High Chief Aleogho
Dokpesi “made his statement on the various media exposures and campaign
transactions which were dutifully carried out based essentially on
contractual obligations/relationship.”
The statement however did
not explain how the office of the National Security Adviser became the
cashier office for the payment of campaign expenses and the source of
the money.
A special panel and the EFCC are probing how trillions
of naira budgeted for defence were spent in the last eight years. An
interim report by the panel already reported phoney contracts in excess
of $2 billion.