Ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan’s former aide, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of dislocating his spinal chord.
Dudafa on Monday, January 23, 2017 told a Federal High Court in Lagos that the EFCC obtained oral and written statements from him under duress, forcing him to implicate Jonathan.
He went further to say the statements were gotten from him during his detention in the EFCC facility, as he suffered pains from a spinal cord ailment.
Adding that he was denied adequate medical treatment, Dudafa also said the anti-graft agency tricked him to sign the statements in exchange for freedom.
He said: “April 27 till May 12 was so tormenting. Sometimes I was taken out from the detention centre and kept in EFCC office between 8am and 8pm, and sometimes until 11pm depending on their mood.
“The ailment I have today is a spinal cord dislocation. It was within that period of my torture and agony that my spinal cord got dislocated.
“I was not in the best frame to write statements but they went on to force them from me. The document remains fake as they only brought out those items to nail me.”
Dudafa further said his family members were barred from bringing him food, leaving him to starve.
Dudafa, alongside Iwejuo Joseph Nna alias Taiwo Ebenezer and Olugbenga Isaiah were arraigned on 23-counts of conspiracy and concealment of crime proceeds.
They were accused of conspiring to conceal proceeds of crime amounting to over N1.6 billion on June 11, 2013.
