Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, who waltzed into the offices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, will be lodging with the anti-graft commission a little while longer.
It’s illegal for a suspect to be kept beyond 48 hours while under interrogation, so the EFCC has obtained a court order to remand Fani-Kayode in its custody for a couple more hours.
That court order is called a ‘holding charge’ in legal parlance and allows investigators more room for interrogation before the suspect is charged before a court.
According to SaharaReporters, the former spokesperson of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign organization will be flown to Lagos to keep a date with investigators on another case bordering on fraud.
Fani-Kayode was alleged to have illegally received N840m being part of the $2.1bn earmarked for the purchase of arms; but which was shared to cronies and politicians by erstwhile NSA Sambo Dasuki.
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