Former
Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Dr.
Olufemi Thomas has voluntarily submitted himself to EFCC, to clear the air on the $2.1million
cash seized at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in
Ikeja- Lagos.
One Mr. Ibiteye Bamidele (pictured above), a bureau de change
operator who was arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
(NDLEA) for being in possession of the $2.1m cash suspected to be
laundered, had implicated the ex-NHIS boss.
The suspect was however declared wanted by the EFCC on Thursday on the suspicion that he had absconded to evade justice.
But Thomas, a former Commissioner for Health in Ekiti State voluntarily submitted himself for interrogation on Friday
at EFCC Headquarters in Abuja but denied that he was planning to run
away because he did not get any invitation from the anti-graft agency.
Dressed
in a white brocade, Dr. Thomas who arrived the EFCC around 10: am was
drilled by the commission's operative to ascertain his level of
complicity.
He was released at about 2:pm. However, the EFCC
spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren could not be reached as at press time to
confirm the interrogation.
His media aide, Mr. Sola Adeyemi had
in a statement described his boss as a thoroughbred professional and
dutiful public servant who would not stand in the face of the law.
The
statement reads in part,"Dr. Femi Thomas is a law-abiding public
individual that has treatable addresses in Lagos and Ekiti. He is a man
that I work with and I know him for his words and actions. As I speak,
we are yet to receive any formal invitation from any quarter on the
allegation.
"For the avoidance of doubt, my boss is not on the
run, he is in Nigeria, he is available and ready to present himself to
the EFCC as soon as he is invited."
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