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EFC :Fayose refuses to cooperate with interrogators

EFC :Fayose refuses to cooperate with interrogators

The former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has refused to leave the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as he said he preferred to remain in detention until he is charged to the Court. The anti-graft agency has barred visitors from seeing him.

 

EFC :Fayose refuses to cooperate with interrogators

 

Fayose was also said to have declined the bail offered him by the commission, insisting on being taken to court. The former governor is being investigated for alleged money laundering to the tune of N4.6 billion, including N1.3 billion that he was said to have collected from former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki.

 

A source said: “The former governor was in his cell, except the periods he was called to face interrogators. He refused to answer questions; he refused to cooperate with our Operatives. We are hoping that he changes his disposition in days to come.

“It is shocking to us that a man who had boasted that he was willing to talk and clear his name when he arrived Abuja is not ready to speak up and clear his image. Many of the teams raised to interface with him have tried their best to make Fayose talk but to no avail.”

He said the EFCC has discovered all the properties Fayose allegedly used the money he collected from Dasuki to purchase in highbrow areas of Maitama, Abuja, as well as Lagos.

In the case of Maitama, the address of the property, which is under construction, is Plot 1504 Yedzaram Street. A bold inscription “EFCC Keep Off” has been stamped on the gate of the house. He said that the former governor only spoke when pictures of the houses he was alleged to have purchased were shown to him. According to him, Fayose told them to take him to court.

 

“He refused to answer questions, especially on the N1.219 billion he allegedly received from the Office of the National Security Adviser, through the former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, during the build-up to the 2014 governorship election in the state,” the source said.

EFCC wanted Fayose to provide answers to all these: “What happened to the N1 billion, which was converted to $5.6 million and handed over to him at his (Fayose) Spotless Hotel, Ado-Ekiti, by a former minister of defense?

“How did he expend the N1.219 billion that was withdrawn in Diamond Bank Lagos and flown by Gyro Airline to Akure, where it was handed over to Fayose’s associate, Abiodun Agbele, on the instruction of Fayose?

“Respond to evidence that an N132 million kickback received by Abiodun Agbele on behalf of his principal (Fayose) from one of the major contractors, Samchase Nigeria Limited, was transferred to Still earth; Siqnachorr Integrated Ltd, Skye Bank and one Hajia Rabi Kundili for purchase of properties in Lagos and Abuja for Fayose and his sister, Moji Oladeji.”

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