Fani Kayode will be spending more days under EFCC custody as Court grants The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission power to detain him for 21 days. The EFCC also obtained a fresh remand order from a Lagos Magistrate’s Court to hold the ex-minister for another 21 days.
Fani-Kayode, who was the spokesman for
the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation was arrested on May 9, 2016
for allegedly receiving N840m during the build-up to the 2015
presidential election.
According to the EFCC, the money which
Fani-Kayode admitted to receiving, emanated from the account of the
Central Bank of Nigeria. The anti-graft agency also froze Fani-Kayode’s bank account and seized his passport in the course of its investigations.
In Lagos, a Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Bola
Osunsanmi, on Monday ordered the further remand of Fani-Kayode for
additional three weeks in the custody of the EFCC.
The remand order was pursuant to an
application by the EFCC on Monday, praying the magistrate for an order
to keep Fani-Kayode in its custody pending when he would be arraigned
before the proper court upon conclusion of investigations.
Counsel for the EFCC, Mr. A.N. Anana,
told the magistrate that the order to remand Fani-Kayode was being
sought under the provisions of Section 261 of Administration of Criminal
Justice Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Fani-Kayode to spend three more weeks in EFCC custody
Fani-Kayode to spend three more weeks in EFCC custody
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