Though many have kicked against the continued detention of a former Aide de Camp to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Col Ojogbane Adegbe, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, but the anti-graft agency says it never acted on its own.
The EFCC said authorities of the Nigerian Army gave their approval for his detention in its custody.
According to the anti-graft agency, they never summoned Adegbe from the United Kingdom where he had been attending a military course after quitting as Jonathan’s ADC on May 29, 2015.
The EFCC, in a counter-affidavit, which the commission filed to oppose the suit filed by Adegbe, demanding N100 million compensation for alleged unlawful detention, explained that it never prompted the Army to summon him from the UK for the investigation.
At the hearing on Thursday before Justice Yusuf Halilu of a Federal Capital Territory in Jabi, Abuja, the Commission said, “The true position is that it was his office, the Nigerian Army, that brought him to the office of the respondent, in furtherance of their investigation into detected financial crimes committed in the arms procurement involving the applicant.”
After listening to both arguments, the court later fixed March 1, 2016, for judgment.
Adegbe has been in EFCC custody since February 11, 2016, in relation to investigation into alleged fraud in the procurement of arms meant for fighting insurgency in the North-East.
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