By Eric Elezuo
Human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has denied authorship of an article titled “Why Has EFCC Not Arrested Yari and Mattawale Bello Despite Similar Court Order”, and making the rounds in the media space, saying the allegation was a lie from the pit of hell.
Ozekhome made the remarks in a statement made available to The Boss, declaring that he “did not, never did, nor will I ever contemplate spewing out such odious inanity and banal statement devoid of common sense and reasoning”
In the statement, he noted:
“How can I, Matawalle’s friend and lawyer of many years, utter such nonsense? How could I be linked with a statement suggesting meddling into a matter that is subjudice; or media trial, ad homine application of laws; or conviction before trial, when the whole world knows me for preaching and writing human rights, due process democracy and good governance for over four decades?
“I hereby WHOLLY DENOUNCE the writeup. I also hereby humbly urge MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO IGNORE the statement and its banner headline, all of which are utterly false, baseless, unfounded and which are simply idiotic.
“They constitue nothing but hallucinations from the fertile imagination of the writer. Such statements are spewed by faceless idle internet crawlers that nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, once historically described as “millipedes of the internet”.
“It is apposite to note here that the issue of me being the author can not even arise because the faceless author still quoted an alleged earlier statement purportedly made by me of I defeating the EFCC 11 times.I couldn’t have been authoring a statement, yet quoting myself, saying, “No wonder the renowned senior advocate, Mike Ozekhome described the anti graft agency with the following statement. EFCC is a paper tiger, i have taken them to court eleven times and defeated them,” he wrote.
He further advised the members of the public to “Please, ignore the statement and consign it to the trashcan of history where it rightly belongs.”
