We Are Detaining Fani-kayode With A Valid Remand Warrant – EFCC Tells Nigerians

The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) on Friday said it
was detaining Femi Fani-Kayode with
a valid remand warrant.
The Commission was reacting to
reports indicating that the former
Minister of Aviation was still being
detained despite meeting
administrative bail conditions by
the EFCC.
In a telephone chat with SIGNAL on
Friday, spokesperson to the EFCC,
Wilson Uwujaren denied Fani-
Kayode had met any bail
conditions. “Which administrative
bail conditions did he meet? What I
can tell you is that we are holding
the man with a valid remand
warrant and what that means is
that work is still ongoing on his
case”, Uwujaren told our reporter.
A statement on Friday by Fani-
Kayode’s special assistant on
media, Jude Ndukwe, disclosed that
the EFCC has moved Fani-Kayode,
to Lagos for further investigation
despite meeting his bail conditions.
Ndukwe said the anti-graft
commission did not give any
reason for moving Fani-Kayode
who has been in their custody since
Monday, May 9, 2016.
The Commission had on Friday,
May 6, 2016 sent an official
invitation letter to Fani-Kayode to
explain his role in the presidential
campaign funds of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) during the
2015 presidential elections.
According to Ndukwe, the EFCC
were only trying to punish the
former aviation Minister and keep
him away from his family.
He said: “They just want to stress
him, take him away from his family
in order to break him.
“We do not know why he was
moved, we just want to believe it is
one of the antics of the EFCC to just
harass him and keep him away
from as many of his relatives and
associates as possible.
“I don’t even think that there was
any need for the transfer, if there
was something they wanted to get
regarding their investigation, they
would have as well done in Abuja,”
he said.