By Ehi Ekhator
The embattled former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has raised alarm that his life is in danger in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
This was contained a statement signed by his aide, Jude Ndukwe which was made available to NAIJA CENTER NEWS.
Fani-Kayode was on Friday arrested outside the premises of the Federal HIgh Court on Oyinkan Abayomi Drivers, Ikoyi Lagos at about 1.55pm.
Though the reason for his arrest is yet to be revealed by EFCC, but Ndukwe claimed that his boss was arrested to shot him up due to his constant attack on the current administration led by President Muhammadu Buhar.
The former Minister had regained freedom after he was arrested by the same commission over his alleged involvement in the N4.6bn arms fraud.
Fani-Kayode was held for 67 days in EFCC custody who used questionable orders from magistrates to allegedly perpetuate their illegality.
Fani-Kayode though his aide, Ndukwe had claimed that he suffered all forms of abuses, truma and even physical attacks from some of the agents of the Commission.
He added “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.
“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.”
Narating Fani-Kayode experiences when he was arrested, Ndukwe who described the arrest as needless as much as reckless said “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
“The re-arrest of Fani-Kayode is needless as much as it is reckless 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.”
