{"id":50253,"date":"2024-09-29T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=50253"},"modified":"2024-09-29T15:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T15:13:54","slug":"house-of-representatives-summons-social-media-influencer-over-alleged-%e2%82%a615m-bribe-to-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/29\/house-of-representatives-summons-social-media-influencer-over-alleged-%e2%82%a615m-bribe-to-efcc\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Representatives Summons Social Media Influencer Over Alleged \u20a615m Bribe to EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, known as VeryDarkMan, will appear before the House of Representatives on Monday over bribery allegations involving the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VeryDarkMan had released an audio recording of popular crossdresser Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, alleging that he bribed EFCC officials with \u20a615 million to have a money laundering case against him dropped. In the same recording, Bobrisky also claimed that he never served his six-month jail term in Kirikiri prison, Lagos, due to arrangements made by his godfather for him to stay in a lodge instead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to these claims, the House of Representatives has summoned VeryDarkMan, Bobrisky, and the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, to appear as part of its investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VeryDarkMan\u2019s lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, confirmed that his client would honor the invitation, demonstrating his willingness to assist with the probe. Speaking with a correspondent on Sunday, Adeyanju said, \u201cWe will be at the National Assembly tomorrow with our client @thatverydarkman to assist in investigations into allegations by Bobrisky that he\/she paid \u20a615m to have money laundering charges dropped by EFCC and also bribed prison officials to stay in an apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, known as VeryDarkMan, will appear before the House of Representatives on Monday over bribery allegations involving the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). &nbsp; VeryDarkMan had released an audio recording of popular crossdresser Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, alleging that he bribed EFCC officials with \u20a615 million to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50256,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253\/revisions\/50256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}