EFCC illegally detaining me for refusing to incriminate Patience Jonathan - GEJ 's ex-aide Waripamo
Dudafa made the allegation in a November 4 petition to the National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC), wherein he also accused the EFCC of
deliberately keeping him in detention despite his fulfilling the bail
conditions set by the Federal High Court, Lagos.
The commission arraigned Dudafa on June 15, before Justice M.B. Idris on
a 23-count charge bordering on the laundering of over N1. 67 billion
and he is also standing trial before Justice Babs Kuewumi for other
alleged offences.
But in the petition, Dudafa, who was granted N500million bail by both
justices, said “despite meeting all the Herculean bail conditions as
ordered by the two courts, the commission has failed to fulfil its part,
by verifying all the title documents of my sureties”.
He accused the anti-graft agency of punishing him for his loyalty to former President Goodluck Jonathan and his family.
“Various attempts by my lawyer to ensure that the commission deposits my international travel passport with the court since I was admitted to bail have proved abortive, irrespective of the fact that the two courts at various sittings compelled and ordered it to release the said passport.
“The EFCC has also refused blatantly to verify all the title documents provided by my sureties at the Land Registry for over two months in relation to the bail conditions granted me by Justice Babs Kuewumi of a Lagos Federal High Court.
“From the above, it has become obvious that the EFCC is desperate to keep me perpetually in prison with the ultimate aim of killing me in prison despite the fact that my deteriorating state of health has been made known to the EFCC through a medical report dated August 29, 2016, and issued by the Nigerian Prison Service, Ikoyi, Lagos,” Dudafa said.
He appealed to the commission’s chairman “to use his good offices to
intervene speedily in my predicament in the hands of the EFCC, as it is
clear case of arbitrary abuse of power, flagrant disregard to court
order and breach of my fundamental rights as a citizen of Nigeria”.
The Nation
