Fani-Kayode still in custody for fresh allegation – EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission said on Thursday that it was investigating the spokesperson
of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign Organisation
for the 2015 election, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, for fresh allegation.
The anti-agency said the fresh
allegation was different from the case of the N800m which the former
Minister of Aviation allegedly received as campaign fund from the $2.1bn
meant for procurement of arms.
It said this on Thursday before a High
Court of the Federal High Court in Apo, Abuja, where it also disclosed
that fresh petition received against the former minister by its Special
Task Force in its Lagos office was what prompted it to move him from
Abuja to Lagos.
Counsel for the EFCC, Mr. Salisu
Majidadi, appeared before Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, on behalf of the
commission to oppose a fundamental human rights enforcement suit filed
by Fani-Kayode, seeking an order releasing from the custody of the
anti-graft agency.
But Fani-Kayode’s lawyer, Chief Ifedayo
Adedipe (SAN), who earlier argued his client’s suit, insisted that the
commission having failed to present the fresh petition as exhibit before
the court, showed there was no proof that there was any ongoing
investigation of his client.
The judge after hearing both sides on Thursday fixed June 29 for judgment in the suit.
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