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EFCC obtains court order to keep Fani-Kayode in custody
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has obtained an order to detain a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Fani-Kayode.
Fani-Kayode, who was spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, was detained on Monday after he responded to an invitation from the EFCC over the receipt of public funds to the tune of N840 million out of the N4 billion campaign funds allegedly sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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With the remand order, the anti-graft agency is at liberty to keep the former minister beyond the time stipulated by law.
It would be recalled that it had been reported that the EFCC is insisting that Fani-Kayode must refund the money he got from the alleged N4 billion from a former Minister of Finace, Nenadi Usman.
Usman was the Director of Finance for the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation.
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Ayotunde
May 11, 2016 at 2:07 pm
All this is witch-hunt…so if my boss gives me approval to do a job for him, after completing the said job EFCC comes in and claims the money is for the Govt. and therefore i should go and start bundling the people that worked to make the assignment given by the boss done…