The management of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State, has demanded a sum of N3.5b compensation from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the damage inflicted on the company’s reputation, as well as that of Olusegun Obasanjo, following Sunday’s invasion.

Addressing newsmen in Abeokuta on Wednesday, the Managing Director of the OOPL, Mr. Vitalis Ortese, also issued a seven-day ultimatum to the anti-graft body and the Inspector General of Police to tender an unreserved apology after EFCC stormed the OOPL premises in the early hours of Sunday and arrested 93 suspected internet fraudsters, seizing 18 vehicles and mobile devices.

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

He said, “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).”

Ortese described the actions as a calculated move 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 to damage the legitimate commercial business of OOPL clients as well as that of Obasanjo before Nigerians and internationally.

He maintained that the Chairman of the EFCC, Olanipekun Olukoyede, and the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police Force, Kayode Egbetokun, must issue separate public apologies published in all major media platforms, including television, print, as well as social media.

“That immediate restitution for the damage caused be made to those persons who were arrested and whose vehicles were carted away by the invasion force of the Police and EFCC, as well as for bodily injuries suffered by these persons numbering at least 100; be paid in the amount of at least N1 billion.

“We also demand that a further N2.5 billion be paid in token acknowledgement and atonement for the immense damage caused to the reputation, business, and our financial reputation, as well as to reputation of our Chief Promoter,” he said.