Why We Don’t Allow Naked Women Wear Clothes Before Breaking Into Hotel Rooms — EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has responded to a revelation in the Peoples Gazette that it invades suspects’ privacy, sometimes detaining individuals when they are unclothed.

According to Wilson Uwajaren, a spokesman for the anti-graft organization, the commission has seen that some of its targets utilize naked women as shields during raids, so operatives often move in anyhow to prevent them from destroying evidence.

Witnesses told Peoples Gazette on Tuesday that anti-graft agents invaded the privacy of scores of hotel guests at Lagos’ Parktonian Hotel in the early hours of the morning, leaving many traumatized.

Some guests were naked when officials claiming to be on the hunt for suspected internet fraudsters broke in and prevented them from changing up before being interrogated, they told The Gazette.

“They broke into the hotel and threatened to shoot the receptionists and management if they didn’t immediately release the master access card to them,” a witness said. “So the hotel workers had to comply immediately.”

“They continued to search other rooms. They went away with about 13 occupants,” another witness said. “I was naked, and I had to beg them (for me) to put something on. I am actually hypertensive, but I put myself together because I am not a criminal in any way.”

Mr Uwujaren, however, defended the “illegal” conduct, explaining that cybercrime suspects use ladies to feign nudity in order to distract operatives and destroy damning data.

“But the commission observes a disturbing trend in which cybercrime suspects now employ kept ladies who feign nakedness as a decoy to distract operatives of the commission to enable them to destroy incriminating evidence before arrest,” Mr. Uwujaren, according to Punch, said.

He said that the authorities acted based on verifiable intelligence targeting suspected online fraudsters in the hotel, and that 30 people were apprehended.

He claims that 24 people have been identified as being involved in internet-related fraud.

Mr Uwujaren further stressed that “the operation was executed without incident as the facility had been under surveillance for weeks during which the commission was able to isolate the rooms where the suspects were lodged.

“Access to the rooms was seamless as the commission has a standard procedure for accessing such facilities without application of force or discomfort to guests. No guest of the hotel was molested.”