A former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission plans to re-arrest and detain him indefinitely.
In a statement he personally signed on Thursday, the erstwhile spokesman of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign organization, said the commission was planning to re-arrest him, even though he had been granted bail by the Federal High Court in Lagos.
“I have been reliably informed by my sources within the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that they are planning to re-arrest and detain me for as long as possible once again even though I have been granted bail by the Federal High Court in Lagos,” he said.
According to the statement, fresh charges were filed against him by the EFCC at the Federal High Court in Abuja on July 7 on allegations that he received N26 million from the National Security Adviser’s office in 2014.
“These are politically-motivated charges and there is no truth in or substance to them whatsoever,” he said.
He explained that the case had been assigned to a judge and the date for arraignment had been set for November 10 before Justice Tsoho of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
“My lawyers were in court for the original date of arraignment on the 14th of October but for some curious reason the EFCC did not show up on that day,” he said.
“The matter was therefore adjourned till 10th November and my lawyers have given an undertaking to the Judge to ensure that I am in court on that day. They have also written to the EFCC to that effect and our letter was acknowledged by them.
“Because of that the matter is now seized of the court yet the EFCC are still planning to arrest me probably at the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos after I appear there on Friday 21st October to attend my trial on the trumped up and, again, politically-motivated charges concerning the presidential campaign funds.
“If they do not arrest me then they will arrest me and seek to detain me for as long as possible soon after that. Whichever way they will come and I am ready for them. I am not running.”
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