Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has described the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC as a ‘senseless’ organization, in dire need of restructuring vowing to overhaul the anti-graft agency, if and when he becomes Nigeria’s president. The governor stated this at a grand reception held in honour of two of the state officials who were recently arrested and then released on Wednesday, October 11th, after spending over a week in EFCC custody. Hear him:
“By the grace of God, I will restructure the EFCC when I become the president of this nation. I will reorganize EFCC and make it look responsible. They detained me in 2008, but I won them in court , because the most high God was on my side.
“EFCC is a senseless body, because if they are not senseless, it should have known that the man who wrote the petition had been sacked because he didn’t deserve to be called a civil servant. The arrest of my officials was orchestrated by Ekiti indigenes in collaboration with the EFCC.
“I will never go and beg EFCC, it will rather beg me. I won’t negotiate anything because I am not afraid of them. There was a subsisting court that barred them from arresting any official of this state, but they breached the law.
Fayose, who had directed workers in his state to observe Thursday, Oct. 12 as a half work day in honour of the freed officials, also promised to buy new cars for them in appreciation of their loyalty to the state.
While accusing the EFCC of having special interest in Ekiti, Fayose added:
“They said the NNPC Group Managing Director awarded $25b contracts illegally, the EFCC did nothing. Even the presidency has been the one defending him now. What is their interest in Ekiti? Whose interest is EFCC protecting?
He accused President Muhammadu Buhari of punishing the citizens of this state illegally, saying: “He has not tarred one kilometer of road since he came into office”.
“This was the way the DSS arrested Hon Afolabi Akanni. They even stopped the state allocation at a time, but whatever they do, Ekiti shall put them to shame,” the governor said.
The state Commissioner for Finance Toyin Ojo and the Accountant General, Mrs Yemisi Owolabi, were arrested on September 28th on grounds that they refused to honour previous invitations for interrogation in relation to a pending investigation on the misuse of bailout funds by the Ayodele Fayose administration.
In their remarks, the freed state officials disclosed that they could not be charged to court by the anti-graft agency because the petition written against them lacked substance.
They said the EFCC practically begged them to leave detention when the agency knew that they committed no offence to have warranted an arrest, saying “we yielded after much pleadings from top EFCC staff”.
According to the duo, the petition written by a former labour leader, whose name was not mentioned, claiming that the state mismanaged the Paris Club and bailouts allocated to it by the federal government was bereft of substantial evidence that could be used to prosecute them.
They said the petition was written basically to tarnish Fayose’s government of Mr Ayodele Fayose. Hear Toyin Ojo:
“I want to thank our governor and Ekiti people, particularly workers for their prayers. The EFCC found it difficult to prosecute us because they lacked evidence.
“Fayose by his conduct boxed EFCC to a corner, because you needed not fear when you committed no crime. By our arrests, it was clear that EFCC has become an instrument of oppression.
“Some states took more than the bailout taken by Ekiti but nothing was done, what is their interest in Ekiti?
“They asked us to sign so that we can leave the detention but we refused. They started begging us before we left.”
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