Lagos, Sept. 5, 2025 – Sijibomi Ogundele, the Chief Executive of Sujimoto Construction, who was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, has denied allegations of money laundering and diversion of funds made against him by the anti-graft agency.
Ogundele, who surfaced in a video on Saturday, denied the allegations and promised to appear before the anti-graft agency to clear himself.
I’m not a thief, I’m not a fugitive. I am going to the EFCC office, to clear my name.
“This is a contract between my company and Enugu State Government. Enugu State Government asked me to help them build a couple of things which was very interesting. I was going to the state every week.
“In the middle of the project, the governor said he wanted to build a city and he wanted to build the tallest building in Nigeria.
“I told the government, I said, this project is impossible because of the price, the pricing, the cost of it is too low to build.
“The government said, don’t worry, just help me do this course. And later, you will make money from this course, but you make money from the other projects.
“When we took the contract, cement was 7,000. By the time we left, cement was 10,000. Sometimes, when in the villages, my staffs are being shot at… but at the end of the day, things went sour between myself and the government.
“Till the last day, I was on the project. Then I asked them, how much have we spent in the project? And I put my foot.
“They took us to court, and we told the court, we don’t want to fight with the government. Let’s agree, let’s agree.
“How much do we owe you? And I was in agreement with them, and now they took me. Now they declare me wanted.”
“They destroyed my company, they abused me. But I’m going to go there. I’m going to the EFCC office. I’m going to go and claim my name.
“In the last two, three years, prices have just gone crazy. If I am doing my project, it’s delayed… the economy went sour on me.
“I was in agreement with the government after they took us to court. Now they declared me wanted, they destroyed my company that I built,” he said.
“In the last five years, prices have gone crazy, something I could have done in two years was delayed,” he said.
The EFCC had declared Ogundele wanted in a public notice issued on Friday by Dele Oyewale, its Head of Media and Publicity, and posted on its official X handle.
It urged members of the public with credible information about Ogundele’s whereabouts to come forward.
