The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed how he investigated the lead pastor of Streams of Joy International and convener of the New Season Prophetic Prayers, NSPPD, Jerry Eze, for six months.
Olukoyede disclosed that EFCC investigated Eze for money laundering but found nothing against him.
The anti-graft agency boss spoke during the Jerry Eze Foundation Business Grant Award in Abuja.
He said: “Sometimes I wish we change the word church and mosque, while we adopt the phrase of an assembly of righteous people who have the spirit of God, rather than using a church.
“In church you have bishops and in mosques you have Imams and I tell you that I have a lot of them in my holding facility as I talk to you and I have a lot of them that are convicted for fraudulent practices, it’s so sad.
“I’m going to embarrass you today, I never felt like saying it but that is my little way of making my contribution.
“I investigated Pastor Jerry Eze for six months for alleged money laundering. We work by intelligence and petitions.
“There was an account where dollars and pounds were dropping like rain drops from Colombia, America, Sri Lanka, and even Togo. We investigated him but found nothing suspicious.”