Fresh out of a 30-day Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ((EFCC) detention on a court-ordered bail, former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, is alleging inhumane treatment in detention.
\nHe claims he went through traumatizing interrogations and forced to declare his assets.
\nHis statement on Saturday reads in part, \u201cMy incarceration for 30 days in the jail of EFCC was unfair, unjust and a clear breach of my fundamental rights and hence stands condemned. During my unjust stay in the EFCC cell, I was subjected to traumatizing interrogations \u2013 my houses and offices were searched.
\n\u201cThey compelled me to declare my assets, they tried to subject me to polygraph lie detector tests, my accounts were blocked, and my phone was seized, all in the name of fictional $24,000 or $25, 000 extortion.
\n\u201cAny Information planted in the media by the EFCC spokesperson while I was in their custody about me is out-rightly false and nothing but a bacterial and fungal infested concoctions, typical of their style.
\n\u201cOur country will continue to be at the bottom strata of the Transparency International index as long as our anti-graft agencies only use their might and arsenal to crush ants while lacking the courage, the heart, and the liver to confront the snakes, the vultures and the hyenas of the ruling establishment. They can frame me, detain me but can\u2019t silence me.
\n\u201cIn an ideal democratic state, all agencies of the government are obliged to operate within the dictates and the ambit of the rule of law or the nation leaps into tyranny.
\n\u201cThe rule book of Stalin, The manual of Hitler or road map of Mussolini should not be the guidance and the compass of the nation\u2019s security and anti-corruption agencies in their quest to sanitize our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fresh out of a 30-day Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ((EFCC) detention on a court-ordered bail, former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, is alleging inhumane treatment in detention. He claims he went through traumatizing interrogations and forced to declare his assets. His statement on Saturday reads in part, \u201cMy incarceration for 30 days in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[789,652,896],"class_list":["post-24190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-detention","tag-sani","tag-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}