EXCLUSIVE: EFCC Operative John Yamah Killed Himself 10 Months Ago After Alleged Intimidation By Senior Officers

Yamah, a member of Course 5, reportedly shot himself at dwelling.

An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Fee (EFCC), SE John Obomeile Yamah, who died by suicide on July 1, 2024, at his Abuja location, used to be allegedly pushed to the act by intense office tension, intimidation, and victimisation by two senior officers right during the agency, SaharaReporters has completely realized.

Yamah, a member of Course 5, reportedly shot himself at dwelling.

Per extra than one sources right during the Fee, the leisurely operative became the subject of interior persecution after processing a letter to a business financial institution asking for the lifting of a Post-No-Debit (PND) remark on an fable that had remained frozen for bigger than a decade.

The letter reportedly went during the desks of Nurudeen Bello, who used to be then Head of Administration at the EFCC Headquarters Investigations Procedure of business, and Aisha Abubakar, then-Zonal Commander of the Kaduna Relate and now Acting Zonal Commander in Enugu. It later became the premise for an interior probe focusing on Yamah.

“John Yamha sent out the letter after it used to be cleared through exact channels, together with Madam Aisha’s (Abubakar) place of business,” one insider told SaharaReporters.

“However when the financial institution wrote aid to ascertain the directive as a result of the age of the PND remark, Madam Aisha denied recordsdata of the letter, despite the truth that it came from her boom.”

In a pass that insiders describe as punitive, Abubakar reportedly instructed Bello to inaugurate an interior investigation into Yamah’s actions, accusing him of performing with out exact authorisation.

The tension and alleged scapegoating that adopted reportedly contributed to Yamah’s deteriorating psychological say, culminating in his suicide—a trend that sparked outrage and danger amongst some EFCC personnel.

“The blueprint failed him,” but some other provide acknowledged. “He used to be pressured for doing his job.”

Every other provide who spoke to SaharaReporters recounted a annoying dialog with Yamah the night before his dying.

“John reached out to me spherical 10 pm the night before he dedicated suicide. He known as me on my WhatsApp line and told me he used to be exact leaving the place of business.

“From his suppose, I might perhaps perhaps presumably presumably sense that he used to be in effort. He told me how Oga Nurudeen and Madam Aisha had been looking out for to total his career at the Fee. He acknowledged he knelt for bigger than Half-hour, crying and begging Oga Nurudeen and Madam Aisha to permit him to submit my resignation the next morning, but they refused and acknowledged he must streak down, alone.

“I requested him what he supposed by ‘streak down alone’ and he began weeping and acknowledged his handiest offence used to be accomplishing a honest instruction,” the provide acknowledged.

On the different hand, the next morning, the tragic info of his dying by suicide broke out. Yamah’s coursemates and colleagues expressed deep shock and sorrow.

“We’re devastated,” acknowledged one colleague. “John used to be genuine, smartly suited, and repeatedly by the guide. His dying used to be entirely avoidable. All americans knows the staunch trigger — the blueprint and those who became against him.”

A main EFCC officer lamented the tradition of danger and impunity right during the Fee.

“All americans knows that John’s dying used to be precipitated by the acts of Oga Nurudeen (Bello). No one dares to talk, regarded as one of his coursemates lamented. Right here’s EFCC. One thing goes by the point. Within the headquarters, we all heard referring to the conditions surrounding John’s dying, the Chief Safety Officer is mindful, the Directors of HR and DIA are mindful, and our coursemates are mindful, but no traipse used to be taken. No one is true spherical him. Oga Nura is feared even by his colleagues and a few of his seniors. He listens to no one. It appears he is bigger than the Fee.

Per the provide, since the EFCC is a legislation enforcement agency, workers are restricted from speaking out.

“Whereas you talk up, you might perhaps presumably presumably be subsequent. They can lock you up in a cell for quite rather a lot of months with out even your household figuring out. Several officers are for the time being in detention, with none charge. Some had been even detained the exhaust of faux names to conceal their identities.

“We handiest uncover out about them after we consult with the cells for the length of incident responsibilities. An exterior audit of the suspects in the Fee’s custody nationwide will point to the extent of the tyranny in the commission,” the provide added.

Several sources alleged that Bello, acknowledged broadly as “Oga Nura,” used to be brought from Kaduna to the EFCC headquarters by Aisha Abubakar to “mark her authority” over the workers.

“He is frigid-hearted and can streak to any size to sort definite he gets what he desires. Within the Fee, his title is synonymous with wickedness, which is right during the recordsdata of each officer of the Fee. As a Course 3 officer, when Madam Aisha used to be in the headquarters, even the Director of Operations (DOPS) might perhaps perhaps presumably presumably no longer give him and the HOI Directives. The duo became the commission genuine into a living hell for all officers of the commission,” regarded as one of the sources acknowledged.

The allegations paint a image of systemic abuse of vitality, a toxic work environment, and unchecked authority interior EFCC ranks, which some insiders dispute contributed straight to Yamah’s dying.

Every other provide acknowledged, “When he (Nurudeen Bello) left Kaduna Zonal Relate, we congratulated each reasonably heaps of for quite rather a lot of weeks, and at the identical time reached out to our colleagues and chums at the headquarters to felicitate with them on the posting of a tyrant.

“The Kaduna Zonal Relate can now breathe. Workers are happier and now waiting for coming to work. At a slice-off date, we didn’t watch for reporting to accountability because Oga Nurudeen.”

Per the provide, Bello’s kind of investigation is alien to the Fee.

“When a grievance is acquired, he investigates each the complainant and the suspect. He orders arrests of suspects with out invitation. We’re all entirely gratified that he used to be transferred to the headquarters, and at the identical time, unhappy for them.

“His file in Kaduna is nothing to write dwelling about. He used to be handiest wonderful at doing soiled jobs for the Zonal Commander. Making arrests with out invitations or warrants, detention of suspects for a prolonged time and intimidating officers and men,” the provide added.

Yamah, born on December 6, 1983, used to be laid to leisure on July 11, 2024.

SaharaReporters tried to contact the EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, for comments and a response to the allegations against the agency and a few of its senior officers. On the different hand, he did no longer resolution his calls or reply to a WhatsApp message, no subject the message being marked as read.