The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has opened up on why it
re-arrested former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode last Friday.
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode
A top source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has revealed to Vanguard why the anti-graft agency re-arrested former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode. Fani-Kayode was re-arrested by the EFCC after he stepped out of a court room at Federal High Court Lagos, on Friday.
He had earlier hinted that the operatives of the EFCC had planned
to arrest and detain him for a longtime over trumped up charges.
An EFCC source told Vanguard last night that Fani-Kayode will soon be transported to Abuja.
“We are going to move him to Abuja to answer fresh questions
arising from the new evidence that he personally collected various sums
of money from the ONSA”. the source said.
The amount allegedly collected by Fani-Kayode, according to the
source is different from the N4.9 billion, which he and the former
Finance Minister, Esther Nenadi Usman, Danjuma Yusuf and a company,
Joint Trust Dimension Nig. Ltd., reportedly collected from the ONSA
ahead of the presidential election.
The EFCC has already slammed a 17-count charge against them for
taking the money from the public treasury and retaining same without
rendering any verifiable service to the nation. The source revealed that
Fani-Kayode was rearrested last Friday following a new finding by the
EFCC that he collected N26 million for an undisclosed purpose.
“There is a fresh case of various sums of money traced to the
suspect, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the N4.9 billion case
we instituted against him and others in Lagos.
“We arrested Fani-Kayode because we need him to explain to our
operatives why he took the money and what he used it for. It is clear
from the records before us that he received the money directly from the
NSA.
“From the record before us, the suspect signed and collected
the sum of N26 million for undisclosed purpose and we want him to
explain to us why he took the cash in the first place,” the source said.
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