Popular singer, Paul Okoye, aka Rudeboy, has said his twin brother Peter Okoye, aka Mr P, was behind his recent arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
In a recent interview with City
FM, Lagos, Rudeboy said Mr P wrote a petition to the anti-graft agency to
invite him over alleged fraudulent dealings.
He said that despite the EFCC
clearing him of all allegations after a thorough investigation, his twin
brother refused to apologise over the false accusations.
“This year, I was invited by the EFCC after
they received a petition against me from my twin brother. I never thought it
[our beef] would get to this extent. I thought it was just music,” he said.
“The next thing, people are
asking me, ‘What do you do?’ Somebody said, ‘You’re going to go to jail for 20
years. They’re going to lock you up.’ I got to the EFCC office, they told me
everything. They’ve already printed all my account statements. They asked me to
explain every transaction.
“First of all, what entered my
mind was, what if I was into fraud? That’s how my brother would have finished
me? But I took it. Then they started the investigation. At a point, I was no
longer comfortable with the kind of questions they were asking me. When I knew
it was serious was when they asked me to get a lawyer and sureties. I did
everything.
“One month ago, they called me, my twin brother and our elder brother [Jude Okoye], and said, ‘First of all, we have to say that after all investigations, Paul is innocent. Paul is cleared. Everything you accused him of, we’ve done our investigation and he’s innocent.’
“Despite the fact that I was
proven innocent, my twin brother didn’t apologise for the false accusations,”
he narrated.
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