Helen Duru’s Story Of EFCC Brutalisation False, She Is Acting A Poor Script – EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has debunked Nollywood actress, Helen Duru as a publicity seeker working in cahoots with some blackmailers to derail the work of the commission.

Reacting to her claims at the weekend that she was assaulted by certain officers of the commission while carrying out an arrest, the commission said that her story didn’t add up as it went on to take her claims one by one.

GWG reports that Helen Duru had earlier claimed that she was bloodied by EFCC officials when they invaded her Enugu apartment

The commission in the statement titled, “False and Misleading Video in Circulation on EFCC Operations” issued by Wilson Uwujaren said:

The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  has been drawn to an online video trending on Instagram,   from the handle of a “@Iamhelenaduru”, a self- styled actress,  purporting,  quite mischievously,  an assault  by operatives of the Commission.

Checks by the Commission, however,    flagged   Helen Aduru,    an upcoming actress,  as  a mere publicity- seeking player,  with a poorly- scripted claim that has fallen flat in the face of unassailable        facts available to the Commission.

In her script, she was quick to include five names of officers she claimed came from the Cybercrime Section of the Enugu Command of the Commission.  Characteristically,  EFCC’s  officers don’t wear name tags nor move around with bulldozer- shaped equipment to pull down security doors. 

Aduru  claimed,  rather strangely,  that she was assisted by a little boy, to a Police Station at 3:44 am but met the station shut.    It is important to note that Police Stations are not civil service ministries that “close” in the evening. Even more preposterous is the fact that she never went back,  at daybreak,  to lodge a complaint.  More poignantly untenable is the fact that her purported assault of July 21,  2022, which has not been logged nearly two months later at the Police Station is only being brought to public glare on  September 2,  2022!! Such a scene could  only stand on a  typical Nollywood fiction series.

Such claims by Aduru,  like all other stranger- than- fiction, click-baiting, sympathy-seeking ploys,  do not merit a response but for the need to avoid “silence is acquiescence” stance of mischief makers.  Deeper  checks on the matter only showed that,  certain blackmailers could be bandying some known names in the Enugu Zonal Command to settle some scores.

The Commission,  strictly guided by its  Standard Operational Procedure,  would not succumb to blackmail or any sleight of hand by  any character. The poorly- scripted video would be further analysed for more forensic details and possible legal action to dissuade those who seem to be making an industry of falsely accusing and maligning the Commission. Members of the public are enjoined to ignore Aduru’s claims.  EFCC’s officers are not assaulters or terrorists. 

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