Mr. Ahmed Kuru, AMCON GM/CEO
Matters surrounding the recent media report that the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON’s) Managing Director, Ahmed Kuru, was a guest of operatives of the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) may not be about to be unraveled soon.
Media reports were all over the place last week to the effect that Mr. Kuru was being quizzed over alleged sales of recovered assets from bank debtors well below their market value.
An official of the Corporation rose to describe the story, which immediately went viral as not only misleading but false, claiming that he was with the AMCON boss at the EFCC for what he termed ‘over stretched’ meeting.
He fuether accused the anti-graft body’s officials of deliberately feeding the media with wrong information.
Said he: “It is the EFCC staff that feed platforms like SaharaReporters, that broke the story.
Explained the top AMCON staff: “SaharaReporters reported in a hurry. They translated an overstretched meeting to arrest and detention. I was at the meeting too, my EDs and some other senior staff were there too that Wednesday and we all left late that night. I called Sowore to also explain this. He, however, told me that his source at the EFCC told him, he sighted my MD at EFCC”.
“That day Sowore himself was at the Federal High Court for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case, I asked him if it would be right to report that his being in court translated that he was facing judgement for his matter with the FG”.
Stated the top AMCON official further: “EFCC staff calling Sowore to inform him that AMCON MD was in their office shows you how unguarded and porous the place is. It’s sad”.
Said he when eminded that there might be no smoke without fire and that this was how the allegation that led to the fall of Ibrahim Magu, former EFCC boss, started: “Not at all. I was at the EFCC with him in the company of AMCON Executive Directors and senior staff. We want to pass on that. What they did was over syllabus. The Presidency will address it”.
