Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday contravened the claim by a witness in the perpetual tribulation of a former Aviation Minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, that he was coerced to indict the defendant.
Fani-Kayode is being arraigned on a 40-count bothering on mazuma laundering.
The witness, Mr. Ojo Agbor, then aide to Fani-Kayode, had told the court on May 14 that he was detained, beaten and threatened by officials of the EFCC just to make a mendacious verbalization against his former ascendant figure.
Agbor had verbalized that contrary to his verbalization at the EFCC’s office that several sums were personally handed over to him by Fani-Kayode to lodge in sundry bank accounts, it was genuinely one Mr. Kola who gave him the sums on Fani-Kayode’s behalf.
He verbally expressed that Kola was a property manager to the defendant and that the sums he received from him were proceeds of sold properties.
He verbally expressed he was coerced to make the verbalization when the EFCC officials threatened to charge him along with his former boss if he did not cooperate.
At the resumed tribulation on Tuesday, however, an EFCC’s witness, Mr. Shuaibu Umar, told Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia that Agbor prevaricated.
Led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Mr. Festus Keyamo, Umar, who is an investigator with the EFCC verbalized, “He came to our office on his own, voluntarily. It’s erroneous that Agbor was lured to EFCC, beaten, handcuffed and detained.
“It’s erroneous that he was beaten up and tortured to indite a verbalization or that he was not sanctioned to verbalize with his wife who just had a baby.”
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