A former Governor of the Central Bank, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has denied being arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Rather, Soludo said his presence at the office of the EFCC in Abuja was to honour an invitation by the commission to clarify some issues.
A statement by his media aide, Bonaventure Melah, said Soludo was neither arrested nor escorted to the EFCC office by operatives of the Commission as was reported.
Melah said: “We want to put it on records clearly that the media reports that Professor Chukwuma Soludo was arrested by the operatives of the EFCC in Abuja is totally false or to say the lease written in error.
“The fact of the matter is that the EFCC wrote a letter to Prof. Soludo inviting him to their Abuja office on the 10th of January 2013. EFCC’s invitation letter to Prof. Soludo was dated 20th December 2012.
“Prof. Soludo was abroad attending to several international engagements when the letter was sent to his aides. As a law abiding citizen of the country, Prof. Soludo returned to Nigeria in the New Year and honoured EFCC invitation on January 10th as requested. He voluntarily went from his home to EFCC office on Thursday. He was neither arrested nor escorted by any operative of the Commission.
“The EFCC letter of invitation to Soludo states that ‘This Commission is investigating a case in which the need to obtain certain clarifications from you has become imperative.’
“It was a two-paragraph letter which also indicated date and time for the meeting between Prof. Soludo and officials of the Commission.”
I was not arrested by EFCC – Soludo
