{"id":5622,"date":"2025-05-03T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:30:30","slug":"efcc-arrested-verydarkman-inside-gtb-bank-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/05\/03\/efcc-arrested-verydarkman-inside-gtb-bank-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Arrested VeryDarkMan Inside GTB Bank Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Martin Otse, known as \u201cVeryDarkMan\u201d a\u00a0 Nigerian social critic, was taken into the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday at the GTB premises<\/p>\n

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Deji Adeyanju, legal counsel to VeryDarkMan, in a tweet, initially accused the police of arresting his client at a GTbank branch in Abuja, where he went to complain about suspicious debits from his mother\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust in: VDM arrested by the police at GTB. Spoke to them before he was arrested. This is unacceptable. Demanding accountability is not a crime,\u201d Mr Adeyanju wrote on X without providing further details on why VDM was arrested.<\/p>\n

However, hours after his posts accusing the police, the lawyer said the social critic, alongside his friend, Steven Avuara, was \u201caccosted at gunpoint a few metres outside the bank\u2019s premises, beaten and blindfolded by some armed men wearing black uniforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said VeryDarkMan was later detained by the EFCC operatives from the commission\u2019s Special Duty Committee (SDC) Unit 4 after being apprehended at GTB\u2019s exit door at Garki, Area 3, Abuja.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier today, May 2, 2025, our attention was drawn to the fact that our clients, Mr Martins Vincent Otse (AKA Very Dark Black Man) and Mr Steven Avuara (AKA C-PACK), were arrested by officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), immediately after they exited Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Ltd\u2019s premises at Garki, Area 3, Abuja,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were further informed by Mr Avuara that they were transported to the EFCC\u2019s headquarters at Jabi, Abuja. At the time of this statement, we are unable to confirm the whereabouts of Mrs Otse.<\/p>\n

He said that when his legal team asked to see VeryDarkMan at the EFCC custody, the operatives \u201cinformed that Mr Martins Otse declined to see anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Adeyanju also claimed that the anti-graft agency failed to disclose the reasons for detaining his client despite several requests, but his team were shown an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n

When contacted by Peoples Gazette, the spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, said VeryDarkMan was taken into custody following petitions against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some petitions against him that we are working on. He has some issues with us,\u201d said Mr Oyewale. \u201cI\u2019m not confirming the arrest anyway; a couple of persons sent petitions to us against him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked to identify the petitioners, Mr Oyewale said, \u201cEvery petition is a discreet thing; it is an operational thing, not what we discuss on the pages of the newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether he is arrested or not, I\u2019m not confirming that. We have ongoing investigations about him (VDM).\u201d<\/p>\n

The arrest came days after VeryDarkMan called GTbank out about suspicious debits from his mother\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

He tweeted, \u201cWe have requested her bank statements, so we know when the debiting started. So far, in this year alone, there have been more than seven debits on loan repayments. GTBank staff are cooperating\u2014hopefully, we\u2019ll know why they keep doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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