EFCC Shouldn’t Have Exposed Fani-Kayode’s Wife’s BVN – Reno Omokri
Ex-Aide on New Media to former President, Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has condemned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for exposing the Bank Verification Number, BVN, of the wife to the former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode.
The anti graft agency while narrating that it did not ‘arrest’ Mrs Fani-Kayode as reported on the media, had published her account number.
But contrary reports and statements issued by the duo revealed that the EFCC detained Precious Chikwendu and his son, Aragorn in a bank in Ekiti State, before the intervention of the state governor, Ayodele Fayose.
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The EFCC, in a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren had said, “The said account, which had a balance of N 2,307,712.82 was flagged following investigation into the PDP Joint Trust fund when the Commission traced N1.1 billion to the Zenith Bank account of Fani-Kayode.
“It was discovered that the account had two biometric identification numbers, one for Fani-Kayode and the other (with BVN 2205597283) for Sonia Chikwendu.
“The same BVN is linked to 2 other accounts in Diamond bank and 15 accounts in Guaranty Trust Bank.”
But Omokri in his reaction via Twitter said that it was unprofessional for the anti-graft agency to reveal the secret number attached to the bank accounts.
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The statement on his twitter handle, @renoomokri, read, “Just thinking out loud, but should the EFCC publish anyone’s BVN even if the person is an alleged suspect? Looks like an overkill!”
