According to inside sources, the
greedy lawmaker, Hon. Eniolorunda may have bitten more than he can chew as he’s
said to be involved in a money laundering controversy to the tune of a whopping
Ten Million (US) Dollars ($10m).
Though, details of the money
laundering deal are still sketchy, bubble burst, however when this office
stumbled on some vital documents believed to have leaked from some of the aides
of the federal lawmaker who’s said to have been so elated of late over the new
deal which we gathered is over $10m.
According to the contents of one
of the documents, dated July 27th, 2015 and which was duly signed by
the lawmaker with his passport photograph affixed, it shows that the lawmaker may
have just taken delivery of a certain consignment, from no-where we don’t know
yet, but there’s an indication that, it may likely contain American dollars.
The documents also have vital
information like the lawmaker’s house address in Abuja given as 144 Zone A Apo
Resettlement Area, Abuja, mother’s name, father’s name, next of kin and so on. And
in our facts finding mission, we did plan to start investigations by cross
checking the authenticity of the documents since there are certain facts and
figures like the address on the letterhead but we decided to get in touch with
the Ondo born politician and his response was quite appalling. Below are the
excerpts of our conversation with him:
Hello sir, I am a reporter from
National Enquirer and my boss has asked me to talk to you regarding certain
documents which contents we can’t really fathom. Sir, the contents of one of
the documents have your passport photograph affixed on it with what supposedly
looks like your signature and other vital information and what baffles us is
that the contents of the luggage, according to the information on it, is money,
do you by any chance know anything about this sir or it is just a mix-up? And
the man goes, “Eh! How and where did you get the documents, photocopy or
original, where are they, did you see it, where are you now, please talk, he
queried. Sir, am in Lagos, the reporter replied. Okay, now that you have this
document, and you yourself said it’s very vital, what do you want to do with
it, the honourable demanded. Sir, my boss asked me to talk to you for your
response, okay, have you people talk to the SSS about it? SSS? Not sure we have
any business talking to the SSS, we’re just investigating on our own for
publication. Okay what do you want from me, he asked apologetically, just come
down, talk to me, are you a Yoruba man, he asked further. Yes, but I don’t want
anything sir, just your response.
Then, there was silence for a
while, and this reporter was like, “hello sir, are you there?”, Yes am here, am
actually here, look, I know what to do for people like you, look! this case has
already been reported with the SSS in Abuja and also Police in Lagos are aware
of it, you guys are 419, you have to help the police in their investigation, you
have to tell them how you got the documents, now give me your name and whoever
sent you, am going to ask the SSS to close in on you, you have to help them in
their investigation, send me your office address now, it’s even good, am coming
to Lagos next week, I have some things to clear in Apapa, I’ll call you, then
we can meet, his words.
After his threat, we told him
we’ve been recording our conversations from the beginning and later sent him
the full names of our editor, his phone number and office address with
descriptions. We however gave him the benefit of doubt to turn up in our office,
make a call or send the SSS as he had boasted but it’s been 10 days and we have
a job to do. We’re still holding on to the other document for further investigation in our print edition which hits the press next week.
Jite Usman.
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