Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegation of
extorting the Chairman of ASD Motors, Alhaji Sani Dauda of $25,000 which
he allegedly promised to give to Chief Justice of Nigeria Ibrahim
Muhammad to influence some pending cases in court, and also to the
acting Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Ibrahim Magu.
The former Senator who was released on Thursday, said
his incarceration for 30 days in EFCC’s jail was unfair, unjust and a
clear breach of his fundamental rights.
Sani insisted that he was framed as he alleged that he was placed in
the underground cell of the EFCC on the orders of its chairman.
His statement reads;
“I wish to thank all individuals and groups that have shown concern,
support, solidarity, and prayers during my 30 days of incarceration in
the underground cell of the EFCC on the orders of its chairman.“With gratitude to Almighty Allah, my special appreciation to
Amnesty International, SERAP, HURIWA, and other groups, numerous to
mention.“My incarceration for 30 days in the jail of EFCC was unfair, unjust
and a clear breach of my fundamental rights and hence stands condemned.“During my unjust stay in the EFCC cell, I was subjected to traumatizing interrogations; My houses and offices were searched.
“They compelled me to declare my assets, they tried to subject me to
polygraph lie detector tests, my accounts were blocked, and my phone was
seized, all in the name of fictional $24,000 or $25, 000 extortion.“Any Information planted in the media by the EFCC spokesperson while I
was in their custody about me is outrightly false and nothing but a
bacterial and fungal infested concoctions, typical of their style.“Our country will continue to be at the bottom strata of the
transparency International index as long as our anti-graft agencies only
use their might and arsenal to crush ants while lacking the courage,
the heart, and the liver to confront the snakes, the vultures and the
hyenas of the ruling establishment.“They can frame me, detain me but can’t silence me.
“I shall abide by all the conditions of my bail and appreciate the
courage, compassion, and wisdom of the court in granting me the bail.“In an ideal democratic state, all agencies of the government are
obliged to operate within the dictates and the ambit of the rule of law
or the nation leaps into tyranny.“The rule book of Stalin, The manual of Hitler or road map of
Mussolini should not be the guidance and the compass of the nation’s
security and anti-corruption agencies in their quest to sanitize our
country.”