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.
As expected and as earlier stated in his
press statement, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode had already raised the alarm
that he was going to be rearrested by the EFCC as the organisation whose
operations have become easily predictable have graduated from being an
investigative body meant to serve the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians
to a vindictive institution willing to do the biddings of some vengeful
cabal whose existence even the wife of the president confirmed recently.
Let it be on record that Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode was held for 67 days in EFCC custody who used questionable
orders from magistrates to perpetuate their illegality. While in their
custody he suffered all forms of abuses, trauma and even physical
attacks from some of the agents of the Commission. 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.
Is that not why despite the urgent need
to tackle the economic recession they have plunged the country into,
they have concentrated all their efforts on dealing with all members of
the opposition and perceived enemies even including Honourable Justices
of the Supreme Court.
The re-arrest of Fani-Kayode is needless as much as it is reckless.
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 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 for 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.
We are watching very closely, and should
anything untoward happen to Fani-Kayode, Nigerians of course know who
to hold responsible even as we demand for his immediate and
unconditional release now!
Thank you.
Jude Ndukwe
SA (media) to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
October 21, 2016
SA (media) to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
October 21, 2016
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