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Jos based businessman protests his arrest by the EFCC
By
Joseph A. Adudu
May
26, 2019
Chinedu Kingsley Okponwa,
a Jos based businessman on Friday protested his arrest by the official Economic
and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).
Okponwa’s protest was
done through his counsel E.I. Suleiman Nicholas Esq via a letter to the
anti-graft agency dated May 24, 2019 when decried the way and manner his home
was unlawfully forced into between the hours of 5am to 6am on Friday 24th
May 2019 by personnel of the graft agency and forcefully bundled him into their operational
vehicle and whisked to Gombe.
The letter which was
addressed to the zonal head of the EFCC in Gombe and copied its chairman, read in
parts.
“Acting as solicitors to
Mr. Chinedu Kingsley Okponwa, and upon his instruction we write to protest the
manner in which his home was unlawfully forced into between the hours of 5am to
6am on the 24th day of May, 2019, and was thereafter forcefully
bundled into your operational vehicle and whisked to Gombe State.
“You will recall that our
client was invited vide a letter from your office dated the 21st of
May, 2019, and served on him on the 23rd day of May, 2019, therein
asking him to come for an interview slated for Monday, 27th of May
2019 at 10am.
“While our Client was
putting his records together in order to attend the said interview as
scheduled, and in contrast to your directive, and to the dismay and chagrin of
logic and civility, your men, in company of the complainant (Felix Egwuh)
rather stormed the house of our Client, stripped him the right to his counsel,
all for a matter that bothers on civil contract which resulted into a dispute,
and which in any case is pending before the Plateau State High Court of
Justice.”
Consequently, the graft
agency was advised to allow common reasoning prevailed by doing the needful in
the right and lawful direction that, is by releasing him immediately from custody
to enable him comply with its request as contained in the letter of invitation.
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