Breaking: EFCC denies arresting VeryDarkMan for multiple petitions

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has denied the study that it arrested a Nigerian societal media influencer and critic, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known arsenic Verydarkman (VDM), due to the fact that of aggregate petitions against him.

Earlier, the BBC quoted the spokesperson for the commission, Dele Oyewale, who was said to person stated connected Monday, May 5, that they arrested the activistic based connected petitions from definite complainants who had concerns against VDM.

Oyewale reportedly said:

"We arrested him to respond to a bid of allegations raised against americium by immoderate petitioners."

When BBC Pidgin enquired if the petitions were tied to GTBank, helium said they were from antithetic people, and it was the petitioners' work to sphere them. The EFCC spokesperson reportedly added:

"We'll merchandise him erstwhile conscionable the bail conditions and we volition taken the lawsuit to tribunal arsenic soon arsenic possible, we are instrumentality abiding".

In the last notes, the bureau confirmed that the activistic was arrested successful Abuja.

But successful a tweet connected Monday evening, the anti-graft bureau tagged the study arsenic fake news.

Source: Legit.ng