Claim that the arrest of suspected internet fraudsters on the premises of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had something to do with the ex-President has been denied by the anti-graft agency.
The latter’s operatives had stormed OOPL on a tip-off in the early hours of Sunday to arrest suspected internet fraudsters who were having a party at one of the facilities on the premises, a hotel.
Consequently the sting operation drew outrage from the operators of the business as OOPL management in a statement demanded N3.5bn in compensation and claimed it was a calculated attack on the former president.
To the claim, the EFCC has made a response.
In a statement the commission’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale released, it denied allegation that Obasanjo was the target of the operation.
Telling EFCC’s side of the story, the statement read in part: “Sequel to the arrest of 93 suspected internet fraudsters at a hotel within the precincts of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, the EFCC will, on Friday, August 15, 2025, arraign 23 of the suspects before Justice D. Dipeolu of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos.
“The arraignment, to be conducted in batches, follows their arrest at a pool party where they were celebrating their exploits. The party was initially planned to hold in two locations but was shifted to the hotel in OOPL ostensibly to escape possible arrest. The planners got wind of the Commission’s intelligence and scampered to the OOPL expecting a sort of cover from arrest. The former president’s facility was not a target of EFCC’s operations. The suspects were the target and have confessed to involvement in internet crimes.”
