PDP goes to court to fight EFCC over Omisore

Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described the stringent conditions given by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for Senator Iyiola Omisore’s release as a way of incarcerating him.

The EFCC, on Sunday morning arrested Senator Omisore as part of investigation into a case of receiving and misappropriating N700 million from the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki between June and November 2014.

PDP in a statement by its spokesman in Osun, Prince Diran Odeyemi, accused the commission of handing over to Senator Omisore, after several hours of interrogation, a bail condition that is very difficult to meet.

Part of the condition given to Omisore is that he must produce two serving directors in any of the federal ministries or agency with landed property in Maitama or Asokoro area of Abuja. The sureties must also submit the original C of O of the said landed properties to the commission.

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But PDP, worried by this condition said, “We know too well of a standing instruction to serving civil servants not to stand as sureties in any matter and wonder why EFCC is giving a condition they have already blocked. We will approach the court to seek Senator Omisore’s release and wonder why EFCC has turned itself to an agent of persecution instead of prosecution,” he said.

Also, criticising the government’s anti-corruption crusade, as a tool by the All Progressives Congress (APC), to weaken the opposition ahead of the 2019 general elections, the state party chairman,  Soji Adagunodo, posited that evidences abound “each passing day that the Buhari administration is using its much-vaunted war against graft as a tool to decimate the camp of those who disagree with it on any issue and ensure that it remains politically relevant as another general election draws nearer.”