Alarm
has been raised over the life of former Minister of Aviation, Femi
Fani-Kayode by his aide who said the government plans to kill him.
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode
Jude Ndukwe, the special assistant on media to former aviation
minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has raise alarm as he said Kayode's life is
in danger. This is coming after the re-arrest of Fani-Kayode by Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission officials on Friday.
Here is the statement below:
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) once again
lived up to its billing of being used by the current administration for
the sinister purposes of silencing the opposition under the guise of
fighting corruption.
As expected and as earlier stated in his press statement, Chief
Femi Fani-Kayode had already raised the alarmthat he was going to be
rearrested by the EFCC as the organisation whose operations have become
easily predictable have graduated from being an investigative body meant
to serve the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians to a vindictive
institution willing to do the biddings of some vengeful cabal whose
existence even the wife of the president confirmed recently.
Let it be on record that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode was held for 67
days in EFCC custody who used questionable orders from magistrates to
perpetuate their illegality. While in their custody he suffered all
forms of abuses, trauma and even physical attacks from some of the
agents of the Commission. Their thinking was that all these torture and
torments would be enough to silence him. But rather than being silenced,
Fani-Kayode, to the consternation of his traducers, has remained
faithful to his position right from the pre-election periods that this
is a regime of evil men whose only purpose for wanting power was to
waste their perceived enemies, their family members and all those
associated with them.
Is that not why despite the urgent need to tackle the economic
recession they have plunged the country into, they have concentrated all
their efforts on dealing with all members of the opposition and
perceived enemies even including Honourable Justices of the Supreme
Court.
The re-arrest of Fani-Kayode is needless as much as it is reckless.
Immediately after he was granted bail by the courts, obviously to
the disappointment of state agents, he had been on a recovery therapy as
recommended by his doctors having suffered untold hardship in the hands
of the EFCC. But realizing that their plans to torture him into silence
did not work, the Commission immediately swung into action again by
sending him another round of letters of invitation for some other
imagined charges to which his lawyers responded promptly by informing
the EFCC of his health conditions.
Despite this, the Commission filed their fresh case against him at
the Federal High Court Abuja in the Charge No. FHC/ABJ140/2016 earlier
this month but despite the presence of Fani-Kayode’s legal team, the
EFCC were neither there nor did they send any representative nor was
their legal team in court. The case was consequently adjourned to
November 10, 2016 (Please, see attached).
We are therefore aghast but not surprised that this latest action
of the EFCC is in sync with the script writers of this whole episode to
silence Fani-Kayode by hook or by crook. Words have filtered to us from
credible sources within the presidency and the security agencies that
the ultimate aim of those who are behind the former minister’s travails
is to apply “extreme measures” on him. We have also been told that in
security circles, that means to have him killed through the use of some
poisonous substances that would break his health down irreversibly and
eventually kill him even months after he might have been released so
that the suspicion would not be at the doorsteps of state agents. If
not, why allow Nenadi Usman (former minister of State of Finance) and
Director of Finance in the PDP Campaign Organisation, Danjuma and others
charged alongside Fani-Kayode to go and only him was re-arrested in the
court premises?
Our fears now are that nothing is beyond this government of sadists
and fascists. We call on the good people of Nigeria, democrats and
lovers of this great nation to rise and demand that no Nigerian should
be persecuted or assassinated based on his beliefs and or opinions on
critical national matters.
We are watching very closely, and should anything untoward happen
to FFK, Nigerians of course know who to hold responsible even as we
demand for his immediate and unconditional release now!
Thank you.
Jude Ndukwe
SA (media) to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
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