{"id":849799,"date":"2025-05-20T19:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/efcc-reveals-why-verydarkman-was-arrested-say-hell-soon-be-charged-to-court\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:12:01","slug":"efcc-reveals-why-verydarkman-was-arrested-say-hell-soon-be-charged-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/efcc-reveals-why-verydarkman-was-arrested-say-hell-soon-be-charged-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Reveals Why VeryDarkMan Was Arrested, Say He\u2019ll Soon Be Charged To Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed why it arrested well-known activist and social media figure, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM).<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kanyidaily.com\/2025\/05\/05153254\/Verydarkman-1.webp\" alt=\"EFCC Reveals Why VeryDarkMan Was Arrested, Say He'll Soon Be Charged To Court\" width=\"586\" height=\"448\" title=\"EFCC Reveals Why VeryDarkMan Was Arrested, Say He'll Soon Be Charged To Court 1\"><\/p>\n<p>KanyiDaily recalls that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanyidaily.com\/2025\/05\/verydarkman-arrested-by-police-at-gtbank-in-abuja.html\">VeryDarkMan was arrested on Friday, May 2 at a GTBank branch in Abuja<\/a>, where he went to complain about a suspicious deduction from his mother\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with BBC News Pidgin on Monday, EFCC spokesperson Dele Oyewale said the arrest was based on multiple complaints filed by different persons against the activist.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cWe arrested him to respond to a series of allegations raised against him by some petitioners,<\/strong><\/em>\u201d Oyewale explained.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the complaints were related to GTBank, he said they were not and that the petitions came from different sources.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the EFCC has a responsibility to protect the identity of those who filed the complaints.<\/p>\n<p>He added, <em><strong>\u201cWe will release him once he meets the bail conditions, and we will take the case to court as soon as possible. We are law-abiding.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oyewale confirmed that VDM was arrested in Abuja, shortly after he had visited the bank with his mother to make an inquiry about her account.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanyidaily.com\/2025\/05\/nigerians-stages-protest-in-abuja-demands-verydarkmans-release-by-efcc-video.html\">a group of young Nigerians staged a peaceful protest in Abuja on Monday<\/a>, calling for the immediate release of VeryDarkMan (VDM).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Tobias Sylvester<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanyidaily.com\/2025\/05\/efcc-reveals-why-verydarkman-was-arrested-say-hell-soon-be-charged-to-court.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed why it arrested well-known activist and social media figure, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM). KanyiDaily recalls that VeryDarkMan was arrested on Friday, May 2 at a GTBank branch in Abuja, where he went to complain about a suspicious deduction from his mother\u2019s account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,135742],"tags":[6130,135741],"class_list":{"0":"post-849799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reveals","8":"category-verydarkman","9":"tag-reveals","10":"tag-verydarkman"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}