Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Monday said keeping\u00a0 Femi Fani-Kayode, locked up for five weeks without trial is crass tyranny.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0 EFCC had accused the former aviation minister\u00a0 of collecting campaign funds running into hundreds of\u00a0 millions, for which the agency has obtained court order to detain him in its cell.<\/p>\n
The group made this call in a release issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yinka Odumakin, saying it was making the demand because it heard that EFCC was planning to get another detention order to ensure that Fani-Kayode was made to remain in detention.
\n\u201cAfenifere demands immediate release of Femi Fani-Kayode who will be clocking five weeks in EFCC cell on Wednesday. We are being told that EFCC is planning to get another detention order to continue his incarceration,\u201d the statement said.
\nThe group, while expressing concern about the continued detention of the former minister, said, \u201cWe are at a loss as to why EFCC announced to the whole world that he committed a crime by collecting campaign fund and holds him for five weeks without charging him to court.
\n\u201cIt is in the same country that EFCC accused one Jafaru Isa of collecting money for election and allowed him to go after a night in EFCC cell.
\n\u201cWhy is Fani-kayode situation different if indeed it is all about corruption and not a ploy to keep him out of circulation for his critical views, especially on the criminalities of the Fulani herdsmen,\u201d it added.
\nIt, therefore, demanded that Fani-Kayode be charged to court immediately or set free if there was no charge against him.
\n\u201cWe demand that he be charged to court immediately or set free if there is no charge against him,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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