The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday morning formally invited a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode to report to its office on Monday, May 9, 2016.
But few hours after the invitation, operatives of the Commission stormed his residence apparently to arrest him.
Fani-Kayode was the director of media and publicity of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation. He was said to have received N840 million from the Director of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman.
After eight hours of siege, he said the EFCC operatives left. Fani-Kayode in several tweets explained when he got the EFCC’s invitation and how they stormed his residence, wondering why they could not wait for him to show up on Monday.
He had tweeted, “Today the EFCC invited me to come their office on Monday. I have their letter. I agreed to be there. Now they have surrounded my house.
“They are at my gate? They can’t even wait because they want to detain me so badly and keep me away for the weekend. I never refused their invitation. Why all this? I leave them to God.
“The letter of invitation was served this morning and it was dated 6th May. They said I should report on the 9th. Can someone pl tell me why?”
“After 8 hours the siege on my home has been lifted, the EFCC has left and I look forward to my date with them at their office on MMonday”
His Media Aide, Jude Ndukwe, later issued a statement reproduced below:
Letter of Invitation From The EFCC to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode
“The EFCC wrote a letter of invitation to my principal Chief Femi Fani-Kayode this morning asking that he report to their Abuja office on the morning of May 9th for a discussion.
The letter was dated 6th May 2016 and it was signed by one Mr. Mohammed Umar Abba on behalf of the Acting Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.
This is the first and only letter of invitation that Chief Fani-Kayode has received from the EFCC and it puts a lie to the shameful allegation that was being peddled around by the Nation newspaper that he had been served with an earlier invitation which he had shunned and that he was running and hiding from the Commission
The letter of invitation was delivered to his Abuja home and he has responded promptly through his lawyers by assuring the EFCC that he would make himself available on Monday morning to assist in their investigations.”
