Fani-Kayode, Odumakin run to court, file N20m suit against EFCC

Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation and Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Afenifere, have filed a N20 million suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The commission had invited the duo over their social media posts that the anti-graft agency raided the house of Walter Onnoghen, the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN).

The agency had denied the claim and threatened them with a libel suit.

In a suit filed at a federal high court in Abuja on Thursday, Fani-Kayode and Odumakin said the public declaration by the commission to arrest them is an infringement of their rights.

They also asked the court to issue an order restraining the commission or any of its agents from harassing, arresting or detaining them.

The duo asked the EFCC to tender a public apology for infringing on their fundamental human rights.

“A DECLARATION that the Respondents public declaration to arrest the Applicants on the bases of spreading false rumours is an infringement of the Applicants rights and a breach of their Fundamental Rights enshrined in Section 34(a) 35(1) (4) and (5) of the 1999 Constitution Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the suit read.

“AN ORDER of perpetual injunction restraining the Respondents by themselves, agents, privies, or anybody deriving authority from them by whatever name called from harassing, intimidating, arresting, abducting or detaining the Applicants.

“AN ORDER compelling the Respondents to tender an unreserved public apology to the Applicants for the infringement of their fundamental rights and for describing them in demeaning manners.

“AN ORDER that the Respondents, pay the sum of N20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million Naira) as damages for the unlawful threat to arrest the Applicants.”