Indications on why Deputy Senate
President, Ike Ekweremadu, was placed under house arrest has emerged.
Officials
of the Directorate of State Security (DSS) and the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday morning laid siege to the residence of the
Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja, thus preventing him
from going out.
However, a letter obtained by our
reporter indicated that the anti-graft agency had written the senator, accusing
him of conspiracy, abuse of office and money laundering.
The letter signed by Mohammed
Umar Abba, Director of Operations, EFCC had invited the senator to report for
an interview at the 5 Fomela Street in Wuse 2.
The letter inviting Ekweremadu
was dated Tuesday July 24, same day it asked the Enugu-born politician to
appear at 10am.
Observers say it might have been
a ploy to take the lawmaker out of reach ahead of the Senate plenary that has
witnessed defection of All Progressives Congress (APC) senators to the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP).
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