{"id":49528,"date":"2016-05-23T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49528"},"modified":"2016-05-23T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:08:00","slug":"efcc-gets-magistrate-courts-nod-keep-fani-kayode-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/efcc-gets-magistrate-courts-nod-keep-fani-kayode-three-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC gets \u00a0Magistrate court&#8217;s nod \u00a0to keep Fani-Kayode for three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mailview-right\" class=\"offset uibox\">\n<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) few hours ago, got the nod \u00a0from an Ikeja Magistrate court to hold Femi Fani-Kayode for three weeks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The EFCC had asked the court for \u00a030 days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Spokesman, Jude Ndukwe, \u00a0who made this dsclosure , said counsels to the former Aviation minister were not informed \u00a0that he was was being \u00a0taken to an Ikeja Magistrate court this morning where they applied to keep him for another thirty days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Full statement<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite having been served court notices for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights, the EFCC today sneaked Chief Femi Fani-Kayode into an Ikeja magistrate court where they obtained a highly contentious warrant to keep him in their custody for another three weeks even though EFCC requested for a thirty-day remand warrant.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Chief Fani-Kayode&#8217;s lawyers had served the EFCC the court notices from a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, 20th of May, 2016, but to our consternation he was whisked to Lagos last Thursday and taken to an Ikeja Magistrate court this morning where they applied to keep him for another thirty days.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This is a gross abuse of court processes and a denial of his fundamental human rights. It is even most shocking that EFCC attempted to take him to the magistrate court without notifying his lawyers or family members. His lawyers had to go from court to court in Lagos searching for venue of the court proceedings before they eventually traced it to Ikeja.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This type of treatment to any citizen of our nation especially in a democratic era is, to say the least, inhuman.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">One wonders why a case already before a High Court was entertained in a magistrate court, and judgement given immediately.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This smacks of nothing but vendetta. EFCC have no reasonable cause to continue to keep Chief Femi Fani-Kayode in their custody beyond the constitutional provision of 48 hours. He is not known to have either attempted to evade arrest nor resisted same. EFCC have since concluded their investigations by the virtue of details of the case they leaked out to the public through the press. So, they have no reason to keep having him in their custody without taking the noble option of charging him to court, after all, they have already kept him with them long enough.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">As an organisation that prides itself as a constitutionally responsible one, it is expected that holding a citizen endlessly would not be part of EFCC&#8217;s operations. If they have anything against Chief Fani-Kayode, one expects that they should charge him to court rather than obtaining contentious remand warrants from one court to the other.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Recall that EFCC had earlier obtained a similar remand warrant in Abuja to keep him for two weeks which has since elapsed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This latest action by EFCC has confirmed rumours making the rounds that the federal government wants to give the former Minister of Aviation the Dasuki\/Naamdi Kanu treatment, a treatment alien to our laws but is fast becoming the norm under the current administration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The question now is, with this naked abuse of our constitution, who is next, and for how long will this continue?<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":2g1\" class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"message\" class=\"statusbar\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) few hours ago, got the nod \u00a0from an Ikeja Magistrate court to hold Femi Fani-Kayode for three weeks. 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