• Invites Groom in Viral Video for Questioning

• Safiu Kehinde

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has cleared air surrounding the viral video showing abuse of Naira notes alleged to have occured at the wedding of Senator Danjuma Goje’s daughter.

Reacting to the viral video which surfaced on social media last month, the EFCC, in statement issued on Monday, denied claims that the incident occured at the wedding of the former Gombe State governor’s daughter.

The anti-graft agency, however explained that an investigation into the viral video revealed that the incident occured at at the wedding dinner of one Amina Babagana Zannah.

According to the statement, Zannah is the daughter of Hajara Seidu Haruna (a.ka. Hafsat Gold Nigeria) who is the Chief Executive Officer of Hafsat Jewellery Enterprise with offices in Abuja, Kano and Dubai (United Arab Emirate).

The EFCC claimed to have interrogated Haruna who confirmed that the alleged naira abuse took place at the wedding dinner of her daughter on October 24, 2024.

She identified the perpetrators of the Naira abuse as the groom’s family who hailed from Niger Republic.

Meanwhile, EFCC disclosed that the Nigerien groom, identified as Ibrahim Mohammad, has been summoned to the Commission’s national headquarters in Abuja, with everyone that sprayed naira notes at his wedding with Zannah.

The statement read in part; “The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a viral video where the nation’s currency, Naira, was freely sprayed at a wedding ceremony in Kano, Kano State on Friday, October 24, 2024.

“Allegations of the abuse of the Naira were imputed to Mrs Fauziya Danjuma Goje, daughter of Senator Danjuma Goje, by Nigerians from all walks of life, including an Editorial by a leading and respected National Newspaper.

“As a responsible and accountable anti-corruption agency campaigning against currency mutilation and dollarization of the economy, the EFCC swung into action by analysing the video and findings showed that the alleged naira abuse actually happened but not at the wedding of Goje’s daughter but at the wedding dinner of Amina Babagana Zannah held on the afore-mentioned date.

“Zannah is the daughter of Hajara Seidu Haruna (a.ka. Hafsat Gold Nigeria) who is the Chief Executive Officer of Hafsat Jewellery Enterprise with offices in Abuja, Kano and Dubai (United Arab Emirate).

“Haruna confirmed the viral video. She admitted that the alleged naira abuse took place at the wedding dinner of her daughter on October 24, 2024.

“The bridegroom, Ibrahim Mohammad hails from Niger Republic and those that allegedly sprayed naira notes and dollar bills were from the groom’s family in Niger Republic.

“The Commission has invited the Nigerien groom, Mohammad, to report at its national headquarters in Abuja, with everyone that sprayed naira notes at his wedding with Zannah.

“While the EFCC appreciates the consciousness its campaigns against naira abuse is building across the country, it will not move against anyone wrongly accused of an alleged crime.

“The Commission remains steadfast in this crusade and would spare no offender, no matter how highly placed.”