Fani-Kayode was picked up
after attending his trial over an alleged fraud of N4.9bn before Justice Muslim
Hassan.
The former Minister of
Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, slumped in the custody of the Economic
and Financial Crimes
Commission.
The Special Assistant to
Fani-Kayode on Media, Jude Ndukwe, raised the alarm in a statement On Monday
night. Ndukwe said Fani Kayode slumped in the custody of the EFCC on Saturday.
Operatives of the EFCC had
last Friday re-arrested Fani-Kayode outside the premises of the Federal High
Court on Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos.
He was arrested as soon as
he stepped out of the courtroom after the judge had adjourned further
proceedings in his trial till November 14 and 15, 2016.
Ndukwe said in the
statement that his boss had been on medication.
He said, “Although Chief
Femi Fani-Kayode had yet to complete the recovery therapy he was undergoing
after spending the initial 67 gruelling days in the EFCC custody wherein he was
also physically attacked by one of the commission’s agents, in deference to the
law and the Commission, he painfully but willingly cut short his therapy and
medical checks to attend court proceedings.
“One would have thought
that these were enough to convince EFCC that Fani-Kayode was very willing to
face his persecutors in court. But rather than be humane in their conduct,
the EFCC hounded him for
the umpteenth time on that fateful Friday and have since kept him in custody.
“It is, therefore, little
wonder that based on the history of his medical condition which the commission
is very much aware of, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode slumped while in detention on
Saturday, October 22, 2016.”
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