EFCC wants me to implicate ex-president – Jonathan’s cousin
– Robert Azibaola, a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan has sued the federal government over his continued detention
– Azibaola has been in EFCC custody after he was invited for questioning over a $40 million pipeline contract reportedly awarded by the office of national security adviser
-The Niger Delta activist is seeking the court to hold the EFCC to force him to implicate Jonathan
Former president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan
Robert Azibaola, a Niger-Delta activist, who is also a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan has sued the Nigerian government over his continued detention, Premium Times.
Azibaola, on Wednesday, May 4, filed a suit before the Federal High Court, Lagos, challenging his detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Joined in the suit as respondents are the EFCC, the Attorney General of the Federation, and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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Azibaola has been in EFCC custody since March 23, after he was invited for questioning over a $40 million pipeline contract reportedly awarded by the Office of National Security Adviser, headed by Sambo Dasuki.
In his suit, Azibaola is asking the court to stop the federal government and the EFCC from applying for any new remand warrant against him from any court in Nigeria.
The applicant said the EFCC had established a pattern of using remand warrants to keep him in custody indefinitely.
The Niger Delta activist is seeking the court to hold that the attempt by the EFCC to force him to implicate Jonathan, is contrary to section 7 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, which has outlawed the practice of arresting a citizen as ransom for the alleged offense of another citizen.
According to The Punch, Azibaola, who claimed that he is being persecuted based on his blood relation with Jonathan, also accused the EFCC of having perfected the plan to keep transferring him from state to state in order to keep renewing the remand warrant to ensure that he was perpetually kept in detention.
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He urged the court to order the EFCC to immediately charge him to court or release him if it was not ready to do so.
The EFCC had on March 23, arrested Azibaola over the alleged diversion of $40m through a firm, One-Plus Holdings, which is a sister company of Kakatar Construction and Engineering Company Limited, through an allegedly phoney contract to secure oil pipelines.
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