Suswam: Court Orders EFCC, Others To Find Out Fake News Peddlers

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Nigerian Police and Department of State Service (DSS) to fish out brains behind a false publication.

The publication alleged that there was a tripartite secret meeting between Rotimi Jacob, SAN; stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Abang on how to send a former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam to jail.

The alleged falsehood was published on Sunday, February 2, 2020 with the caption: “N3.1bn Fraud: Justice Abang Secretly Meets APC Stakeholders, EFCC Prosecutor To Jail Suswam.”

According to a statement posted on the Facebook page of the EFCC, the publication had alleged that thirty minutes after the court proceedings on Friday, February 31, 2020, Abang drove in the same convoy with EFCC prosecutor, Rotimi Jacobs, to the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja where they both flew to Lagos to have a secret meeting with some APC stakeholders.

Suswam, alongside his former Commissioner of Finance, Okolobia Omadachi are being prosecuted by the EFCC on a nine-count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds to the tune of N3.1 billion.