Raid: Obasanjo Library to sue EFCC, demands N3.5bn compensation

EFCC head office

THE management of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, Abeokuta in Ogun State, yesterday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Inspector General of Police to apologise over last Sunday’s invasion of its premises.

It also demanded N3.5 billion as restitution for the damage caused to the victims of the illegal invasion and in atonement for the immense damage to the company’s reputation, as well as that of Olusegun Obasanjo, the company’s chief promoter.

The Managing Director of the OOPL, Mr Vitalis Ortese, who stated these while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State, described the EFCC’s actions as “unlawful” and “a direct assault on everything the institution stands for”.

It was reported that operatives of the EFCC stormed the OOPL premises in the early hours of Sunday and arrested 93 suspected internet fraudsters, seized 18 vehicles and mobile devices.

Ortese said the management of OOPL is determined to pursue every legal avenue to ensure that such incident never happens again.

He said: “The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Nigeria Police Force, are jointly and severally liable for the deliberate embarrassing and utterly malicious damage occasioned by their invasion of August 9 and 10, 2025 as aforestated.

“We are fully persuaded that the acts are not only aggravated, unconstitutional, oppressive, capricious and arbitrary, the actions are also clearly actuated by malice against the institution of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library and also of its Chief Promoter, Olusegun Obasanjo, who was Head of State (1976-1979) and President of Nigeria (1999-2007).

“The foregoing actions are clearly calculated not only to oppress and brutalise as well as violate in gross terms, the fundamental and other rights of the more than 100 persons as aforestated; but also calculated to wreak maximum damage on the legitimate, commercial business and financial interests of our Client as well as damage the standing of our Client and its Chief Promoter in the eyes of right thinking members of the public both in Nigeria and internationally.