Pastor Musa Kallamu, the Borno based cleric who claimed the Christian Association of Nigeria received N7bn from the Presidency to campaign against Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has recounted his ordeal in the hands of the Department of State Services, DSS.
DAILY POST had exclusively reported that Kallamu was invited for interrogation by the secret security outfit following his outburst.
The whistle-blowing cleric has while recalling his ordeal during his invitation to the DSS headquarters claimed that he was treated like a common criminal.
Kallamu said he was forced to sign a document under duress retracting his claims so they can use it on national dailies to portray him as telling lies against the body of Christ.
“They forced me to sign and promise to link me up with the CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for us to ‘settle’,” he told newsmen in Kaduna.
However, despite the circumstances, the pastor insisted that CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan.
The cleric said: “The DSS invited me to their office in Abuja. They wanted to know who gave me the information that CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan and I told them.
“They said all the people I mentioned will be invited. I told them to go ahead and invite them. I even told them how the money was distributed.
“They also said they wanted to know whether the opposition All Progressives Congress was the one sponsoring me to tarnish the image of the CAN and even mention Sam Nda-Isaiah (Publisher of the Leadership Newspapers) and I told them my relationship with him is not political, because since 2006, I have been with him. I told them he (Sam) does not know anything about my revelation on the said money.
“They also asked me what my connection was with the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), and Governor Rotimi Amaechi and I told them there is nothing that connects us. I told them whatever I said was done for the love of my country.
“After sometime, they drafted a letter which said, ‘I, Pastor Musa… the information I gave that the President gave CAN money was false and that I won’t do that again.’
“They said I should copy what they wrote in my own hand writing. I have to do it because I was alone with them and I felt they could harm me and frame me up.
“They forced me to sign after writing what they drafted. I wanted to refuse but I feared for my life”.
The pastor during the joint interview with newsmen in Kaduna played a recorded audio of someone confirming that CAN had collected the money before members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kaduna Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Kaduna
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