The Financial and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has opened up on the motive it has failed to apprehend controversial relationship professional, Blessing CEO, over her cancer claims and fundraising.

Recall that the media persona had claimed closing month that she had been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer and hunted for financial support from Nigerians.

Nonetheless, Blessing later clarified in interviews that she doesn’t dangle stage four cancer, attributing earlier experiences to a misunderstanding.

She acknowledged she used to be amassed attempting forward to extra clinical checks and had no longer started chemotherapy. She additionally insisted that the amount she bought from the general public used to be ₦13 million, no longer the commonly circulated figure of ₦100 million.

Following the improvement, there had been outrage on social media with netizens urging the anti-graft agency to procedure shut actions towards the relationship professional.

Nonetheless, talking to The Cable, a source within the EFCC explained that the commission has no longer bought a proper petition towards Blessing CEO. The anti‑graft agency acknowledged it requires a sound complainant to originate a probe and, if needed, pursue a case in court docket.

“All americans is announcing EFCC ought to amassed arrest Blessing CEO. Nonetheless nobody has placed a petition sooner than the EFCC CEO. As an anti‑corruption agency, we is no longer any longer going to work on social media agitation, social media frenzy, without a credible petition that can authorise us to work on it,” the source acknowledged.

The decent famend the need for a petitioner to act as a explore if the topic advances to court docket. “If we rush by social media agitation and there could be a prefer to rush to court docket, who’s going to wait on as a explore? Who’re we going to voice has petitioned the commission?” they requested.

The EFCC source urged someone with evidence, in conjunction with info of donations to Blessing, to reach forward.

“All americans knows that if someone obtains anything by faux pretence, they are at possibility of EFCC investigation if it’ll additionally even be established. This is the receipt of the cash she amassed. They ought to amassed reach forward with receipts and evidence,” the source added.