The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied starving a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Dr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa while in detention.
Dudafa had claimed while testifying in a trial-within-trial that the officials of the anti-graft agency put him under duress to make some confessional statements just to implicate former first Lady, Patience Jonathan.
He had claimed, “after the 13th of May, 2016, they took me back to the cell and they continued taking me out each day so that I could go through agony.
“In the cell, I was isolated. I was not treated like any other detainee. All other detainees had access to their phones and food but me. My family members were stopped from bringing food to me and I accused the EFCC of planning to poison me.
“They wanted to break me down, to make me implicate some people. They asked me questions about former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; they said I was not their targets and made all sorts of overtures but I said over my dead body,” Dudafa said.
But during cross-examination yesterday, EFCC’s lawyer Rotimi Oyedepo exhibited a record of those who visited Dudafa and what they brought for him.
Oyedepo said last April 27, one Okebuwa brought food items to Dudafa in detention, including rice, chips, meatpie, chickenpie and unripe plantain.
The lawyer said the following day, Okebuwa brought plantain and roasted fish, while on April 29, he brought eba, yellow soup, rice, salad and later brought rice, stew and banana for Dudafa.
Oyedepo said the same person also brought eba and stew for Dudafa on April 30, as well as rice, stew, yam and fried fish the following day.
The EFCC prosecutor said on May 2, Dudafa had unripe plantain and pepper-soup brought to him.
He said beans, plantain and bread were brought to him on May 3, while he had apple and soup on May 5, rice, beans, stew and eba on May 6, and rice, pepper soup and banana on May 9.
Each time Oyedepo asked Dudafa to confirm if the food was brought to him, he said: “I don’t know.”
He adjourned the trial-within-trial to February 21.
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