EFCC RAID:-FANI KAYODE TO BE INVITED FOR FURTHER QUESTIONING

$2.1 b arms money: Fani-Kayode to be traveled to Abuja for crisp addressing 

*My life in peril — Fani-Kayode 

*As Obanikoro invests weekend in EFCC 

Signs rose the previous evening that the previous Director of Media and Publicity of the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organization, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who was re-captured yesterday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after he ventured out of a court at Federal High Court Lagos, where he is standing trial would be traveled to Abuja for new cross examination. He would confront crisp charges over new proof that he gathered colossal money straightforwardly from the troubled previous National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, in the development to the 2015 presidential decision. Fani-Kayode in court Meanwhile, Chief Fani-Kayode has raised the caution that his life was in peril and that the EFCC ought to be considered mindful should anything transpires. In an announcement issued by his media associate, Jude Ndukwe, he asked why all other people who were on trial with him were permitted to go while he was the stand out re-captured. The announcement in this manner required his prompt discharge. Nonetheless, a top EFCC source said the previous evening that, "we are going to move him to Abuja to answer new inquiries emerging from the new confirmation that he by and by gathered different aggregates of cash from the ONSA". The sum professedly gathered by Fani-Kayode, as indicated by the source is not quite the same as the N4.9 billion, which he and the previous Finance Minister, Esther Nenadi Usman, Danjuma Yusuf and an organization, Joint Trust Dimension Nig. Ltd., purportedly gathered from the ONSA in front of the presidential decision. The EFCC has as of now pummeled a 17-count charge as a detriment to them for taking the cash from people in general treasury and holding same without rendering any certain support of the country. "There is a crisp instance of different wholes of cash followed to the suspect, which has nothing at all to do with the N4.9 billion argument we initiated against him and others in Lagos. "We captured Fani-Kayode on the grounds that we require him to disclose to our agents why he took the cash and what he utilized it for. It is clear from the records before us that he got the cash specifically from the NSA. "From the record before us, the presume marked and gathered the total of N26 million for undisclosed reason and we need him to disclose to us why he took the trade out the primary spot," the source said At the continued knowing about the charge against him in Lagos yesterday, the prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, opened his case and finished up the witness' confirmation for the day, while the court deferred the case to November 14 and 15, 2016, for continuation of trial and rose. In the interim, Saturday Vanguard learnt additionally that the previous Minister of State for Defense, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, who answered to the EFCC since Monday this week, would spend the main weekend in the commission's guardianship, as there was no arrangement to set him free yet. In spite of the fact that Obanikoro has embroiled Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose and previous Osun Deputy Governor, Senator Iyiola Omisore, in his most recent explanation to the EFCC, the organization made it clear that it was not yet through with the previous clergyman. "Obanikoro will in any case be with us this weekend," an able source said the previous evening. Soon after Fani-Kayode had left court, two officers of the EFCC wearing white kaftan, asked for that he tailed them to the commission's office. Instantly, the court's door was blockaded by a Toyota Hiace transport and Fani-Kayode was taken to the EFCC. The Commission yesterday opened its case and called its first witness, Mr Idowu Olusegun. Driven him in confirmation, the witness, who is media specialist with Paste Posters Company Ltd, told the court that N30 million was paid in real money to him, by the workplace of the Director of media and attention, PDP crusade Organization. As per Olusegun, he had achieved a concurrence with the association whose office is arranged at 14B, Samora Machel Avenue, Asokoro, Abuja, for the total of N24m for media consultancy administrations. He said that a further transaction was come to in which N50 would be paid for every size of A2 blurbs, while N20 would be paid for every size of A4 flyers. The witness told the court that after the printing work for the publications and flyers was done, he was welcome to the workplace of the association and given N30 million in real money. He assist told the court that he had requested to know why installment was made in real money and was educated by one Mr Oke, that money was the endorsed method for installment. He said that Mr Oke had been the individual speaking with him all through the pendency of his engagement to do the media employments. The witness included that separated from the N30 million paid to him, there was additionally an extraordinary installment of N24m which was not paid to his organization. After his declaration and in view of understandings of advice, the court settled November 14 and 15 for continuation of trial. In the mean time, a mellow dramatization played out in court amid trial, when the trial judge, Justice Sule Hassan, requested the seizure of the cell phone of Fani-kayode. The denounced had held his telephones and all of a sudden, the telephone rang so everyone can hear and the judge asked: "Who is doing that?" He requested the court's recorder to grab the telephones. Thus, the trial judge likewise issued a notice to guide speaking to the charged, when he located him tasting from a filtered water amid procedures. The judge had cautioned guidance to look for the consent of the court, at whatever point, his customer was squeezed for water. As indicated by Hassan "The court is not a commercial center, there must be request and rational soundness

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