Former House of Representatives member, Hon. Israel Sunny- Goli, has dismissed claims of planning a protest to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking to force a probe into investments made by the Nigerian Content development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) under Engr. Simbi Wabote.
Mangrovepen.ng recalls that the Niger Delta Justice Forum (NDJF) said it had uncovered a plot by Sunny-Goli to rent a crowd to protest in Abuja, Port Harcourt and Yenagoa, against Wabote and former petroleum minister, Chief Timipre Sylva, to stampede the EFCC to probe the petition before it.
But Sunny-Goli in a statement on Tuesday accused NDJF of being bankrolled to publish falsehood in the attempt to divert the attention of the public from his petition submitted to the EFCC to probe the disbursement of funds in the execution of projects.
Sunny- Goli who represented Brass-Nembe in the Green Chamber insisted that he is not being bankrolled by anyone.
The Bayelsa politician reiterated that his decision to submit a petition to the EFCC was prompted by a conviction that public funds must be accounted for.
In his words: “I wish to state emphatically that I am not a coward who hides under fictitious characters to throw darts.
“This is why I personally went down to the EFCC office in Abuja to submit a petition I wrote on my letterhead and signed.
“I take full ownership of the petition I submitted in person to the EFCC, calling on them to investigate and bring to book anyone found culpable in the event of any financial misappropriation in some of the disbursements made by the Simbi Wabote led NCDMB, particularly with respect to the $35 million invested in the Atlantic Refinery and another $20 million disbursed for the Brass Fertilizer & Petrochemical Company Ltd.
“I also stand by the claims contained therein in my petition and maintain that nothing tangible has been achieved in any of those projects despite the huge sums claimed to have been fully paid for them.”
Sunny-Goli challenged the group to show proof of the completion of the projects mentioned in the petition or milestones achieved instead of engaging in baseless allegations.
The EFCC is a professional government agency that does not need anyone to railroad it to do its duties, he said.
