Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has lambasted the Economic and
Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over the arrest and detention of his
two aides, describing the commission as a ‘senseless’ organization, in
dire need of restructuring.
Vanguard reports that Fayose, who
vowed to overhaul the anti-graft agency, said he would restructure EFCC
when he becomes president in 2019.
“By the grace of God, I will restructure the EFCC when I become the president of this nation”, he said.
Fayose
said he would reorganize EFCC and make it looks responsible, adding
that, “they detained me in 2008, but I won them in court, because the
most high God was on my side.
“EFCC is 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 stated this on Thursday, October 12 during a grand reception
organised for his aides who were arrested by the EFCC, promised to buy
new cars for the two officials in appreciation of their loyalty to the
state.
The arrested Ekiti state commissioner for finance, Toyin
Ojo and the Accountant General, Yemisi Owolabi , have 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
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) practically begged them
to leave detention when the agency knew that they committed no offence
to have warranted arrest, saying “we yielded after much pleading from
top EFCC staff”.
The duo said 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
