What manner of a justice system would allow a suspect to be arrested, detained indefinitely whilst the accuser goes on a voyage of discovery and endlessly fishing for evidence, if not a banana republic model?
This was the question Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose put to President Mohammadu Buhari on Friday, in response to the continued detention of spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metu by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Governor Fayose, an virulent critic of the President, while maintaining support for a genuine fight against corruption, challenged the EFCC to also act on petitions submitted to it against All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains and President Buhari’s election sponsors.
Fayose, who conveyed his misgivings through his spokesman, Lere Olayinka, cautioned that nothing untoward must happen to Metuh, adding that the APC’s desperation to decimate and silence the opposition had dragged the Buhari-led government in the mud of lawlessness.
Fayose
His words: “In saner climes, you don’t arrest people for alleged fraud and start to look for evidence to prosecute them.
Rather, before you arrest anyone for fraud, anti-corruption agencies must have established a prima facie case and arresting the suspect will only be to enable for his or her arraignment in court.
“However, what we are witnessing in Nigeria today is a situation whereby the EFCC will arrest PDP leaders, humiliate them by subjecting them to media trial, detain them for weeks in the process of trying to force them to make statements during which the commission will be looking for evidence.
“For instance, in the case of Metuh, we are being told that the EFCC is insisting that he must write statements and one begins to wonder if it has now become mandatory for an accused to write statements in law enforcement agent’s custody. Shouldn’t the EFCC have simply charged
Metuh to court based on its own evidence? Or is Metuh’s statement the evidence the EFCC requires to prosecute him?
“The international community, especially the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU), European Union (EU) and others are put on notice on this condemnable act of arresting and detaining opposition leaders by agents of the Buhari-led government before fishing for evidence.”
“If President Buhari did not wait for any petition to move against PDP chieftains, asking people to come forward with allegations of corruption against APC chieftains, especially those who sponsored
President Buhari’s election is clearly hypocritical.
“Most importantly, that the EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu even said the commission do not have any petition against APC chieftains when indeed there are loads of petitions against ministers serving in Buhari’s government and other notable APC chieftains goes to show the hypocrisy of the fight against corruption.
“It is even more hypocritical and anti-democratic for the President to have turned himself to the accuser, prosecutor and judge, carrying on as if those he accused of corruption have already been convicted.”
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Sane pple in psychia, while d insane re free n blabbing rubbish. Fayose is a proof

Ndi ala change!

Fayose is making sense, how long will they keep Metuh in custody while looking for evidence to implicate him. It is clear that some people want to keep him silent for as long as possible.

May the eaters of our yam continue to languish and be disallowed any further enjoyment of their loots...