The Borno State-born pastor, Kallamu Musa-Dikwa,
who affirmed the allegation that President Goodluck
Jonathan gave the Christian Association of Nigeria,
CAN, N7 billion to support his re-election bid, has
cried out over threats to his life by operatives of
the Directorate of State Service (DSS).
While insisting that the Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor-led
CAN collected the said amount, Dikwa said the DSS
had forced him to sign a document which they
would use against him to prove to the entire world
that “the President (Jonathan) did not bribe CAN to
work against the presidential candidate of APC”,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
Dikwa said the DSS planned to use the ‘document’,
which he was made to sign under duress in some
national dailies to portray him as telling lies against
the body of Christ.
“They forced me to sign and promise to link me up
with the CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for
us to ‘settle’,” he said
The pastor claimed that all these were in addition
to pleas from other Christian leaders, especially the
Abuja CAN Chairman, to deny that the Christian
body collected the said amount (N7bn).
Speaking in Kaduna Thursday, Dikwa told
journalists that after the DSS Operatives had
treated him like a “common criminal”, they forced
him to sign a document to deny what he had said.
According to him, since he broke the news to
Nigerians of how the CAN collected N7bn to work
against Buhari, his life had been under threat.
He added that as soon as he finished addressing
members of the press on the alleged bribe, the DSS
invited him to its headquarters in Abuja and asked
him to say that CAN did not collect a dime from the
President.
The cleric said, “The DSS invited me to their office
in Abuja. They wanted to know who gave me the
information that CAN collected N7bn from Jonathan
and I told them.
“They said all the people I mentioned will be
invited. I told them to go ahead and invite them. I
even told them how the money was distributed.
“They also said they wanted to know whether the
opposition All Progressives Congress was the one
sponsoring me to tarnish the image of the CAN and
even mention Sam Nda-Isaiah (Publisher of the
Leadership Newspapers) and I told them my
relationship with him is not political, because since
2006, I have been with him. I told them he (Sam)
does not know anything about my revelation on the
said money.
“They also asked me what my connection was with
the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and Governor Rotimi
Amaechi, and I told them there is nothing that
connect us. I told them whatever I said was done
for the love of my country.
“After sometime, they drafted a letter which said, ‘I,
Pastor Musa… the information I gave that the
President gave CAN money was false and that I
won’t do that again’.
“They said I should copy what they wrote in my
own hand writing. I have to do it because I was
alone with them and I felt they could harm me and
frame me up.
“They forced me to sign after writing what they
drafted. I wanted to refuse but I feared for my life”.
Source :- www.informationng.com/2015/03/how-dss-forced-me-to-sign-document-recanting-n7bn-bribe-allegation-against-can-borno-pastor.html
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