There were indications last night that detained former governor of Ekiti State, Mr.
Ayodele Fayose, had begun opening up on the allegations of corruption brought
up against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which
took him into its custody on Tuesday.
Fayose,
according to reliable sources within the commission, started responding to the
issues put to him by his interrogators on Thursday, a day after EFCC secured a
court warrant to detain him up to 14 more days.
This
came as his lawyer and human rights activist, Mike Ozekhome, hinted on Thursday
that the former governor’s legal team had begun moves to get him out of the
EFCC custody.
The EFCC, which started following Fayose’s financial
transactions more than two years ago, accused him of receiving N1.3 billion
from the Office of the former National Security Adviser, Col, Sambo Dasuki
(retd) and laundering the cash on choice property in Lagos and Abuja and
receiving kickbacks from contractors.
But since arriving the EFCC interrogation centre, sources hinted that Fayose rebuffed all attempts by the security operatives to talk, forcing the agency to approach a court to obtain a detention warrant to keep in beyond 24 hours. A source in EFCC told Vanguard last night that Fayose had started talking to the operatives of the commission but did not say in which area the former governor responded.
But since arriving the EFCC interrogation centre, sources hinted that Fayose rebuffed all attempts by the security operatives to talk, forcing the agency to approach a court to obtain a detention warrant to keep in beyond 24 hours. A source in EFCC told Vanguard last night that Fayose had started talking to the operatives of the commission but did not say in which area the former governor responded.
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