Iam compelled to react to several statements from the police Service Commission in a desperate bid to discredit my person linking me with alleged U.S visa scam. I have deliberately avoided commenting on it because it is in court but the ferocity with which Mr. Okiro and his paid agents are misleading the public has compelled me to react.
In Sept.2014 while serving as the Protocol Officer to the Commission, I was approached by Insp. George Todunu the orderly to Mr. Okiro who brought one Mr Hart,whom he introduced as Okiro’s friend. Insp. George said Sir Okiro wanted me to help the man, his P.A and his younger brother acquire U.S visa without appearing at the U.S embassy.
My response was a swift “NO” ;and the reason (according)to him and Mr. Okiro was that his friend was (neither) a staff of PSC nor a government official and even (if)he was any of the above, there are laid down procedures for people travelling abroad on official assignment.
I advised Mr Okiro’s friend whom I suspected to be a man of fraudulent character because he and his co travellers have been denied visa previously by the same U.S embassy, U. K and other embassies despite the fact he claimed he had enough money to fund their trips. I thereafter advised him to follow the normal procedure allowed for private citizens to access visa in the embassy.
I want the world to know that I never solicited nor received any money from Mr. Hart,Okiro’s friend, if I had done so in my official or personal capacity Okiro would have published the official files at his disposal .
When it became obvious in the Police Service Commission that I had enough information to send Mr. Okiro to prison over his fraudulent acts, suddenly a petition from his dubious friend emerged in May 2015 that I collected money from him and in almost commando style the zone 7 Abuja police arrested me in Mr. Okiro’s office took me to my house and ransacked my house claiming to be looking for PSC documents in my possession, took me back to their station where I slept on the bare floor and was charged to court on frivolous charges the following day based on Okiro friend’s petition.
Despite the fact that I was given bail and met all the conditions, the police apparently acting on instructions from Mr. Okiro rather took me to Kuje prison where I spent the night. It took the intervention of the angry magistrate before the police left me off the following day.
I want to put it on record that I worked as Head of Protocol for 6 years where I served two Chairmen including the respected former Chairman, Parry Osayande DIG (rtd) without blemish.
As a matter of fact it was during Okiro time that I realised how (dis)honest some top government functionaries could be. It was also in the cause of my investigation and exposure of Okiro fraud that I realised that his girlfriend, (name withheld) whom he gave mock training to was the same person Okiro lied to me that she was a consultant to the PSC and I should include her name in the application for his official visa to Ireland, which he never did despite collecting government money.
The embassy obviously sensing a foul play refused her visa. Mr. Okiro asked me to write an appeal attaching her so called links with the Commission. The embassy rejected the appeal again. It took a desperate Okiro to pay ‘ courtesy call’ on the ambassador before she was reluctantly issued a visa.
I am not fraudulent, have never been involved in crime .So I want Nigerians to know why I am so labelled by Okiro in a desperate bid not (to)answer to fraud allegations but attack and discredit me.
