Barely few hours after former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were plotting to rearrest him, the anti-graft agency on Friday did exactly that when its operatives picked him up this afternoon outside the premises of a Federal High Court on Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Fani-Kayode was in court for his trial over an alleged fraud of N4.9bn but was re-arrested shortly after he left the court premises.
The EFCC is currently under public scrutiny. Many believe the commission is now a tool of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government in the silencing of political opponents.
Interestingly before his arrest, during today’s hearing of the money-laundering case against him, the judge, Sule Hassan ordered that the mobile phone of Mr. Fani-Kayode be seized after the accused phone rang.
The judge further warned a member of the defence team to stop sipping water in the court without first seeing permission to do so.
“The court is not a market place, there must be order and sanity,” he said.
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