BREAKING: “COME OUT IF YOU ARE INNOCENT – EFCC THREATENS TO USE MILITARY TO ARREST YAHAYA BELLO

Babatunji Wusu –

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has threatened to employ the military to arrest Yahaya Bello, the former Governor of Kogi State, if he continues to ‘play games’.

Following an unsuccessful attempt to apprehend the former governor of Kogi state at his Abuja residence yesterday, the anti-graft agency is considering using the military in the enforcement of the arrest order issued on Wednesday, April 17.

Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), the EFCC’s counsel, issued this threat on Thursday, April 18, during a hearing at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Pinheiro charged that Usman Ododo, Bello’s replacement, was impeding the EFCC’s efforts on Wednesday to execute the directive.

Pinheiro said: “What happened yesterday was that a person with immunity (Ododo) came to whisk him (Bello) away to abort his arrest.

“We know that he is being kept in his successor’s house. Immunity is not attached to a home but to a person.

“We can invite the military to invade the building where he is being kept to execute the order of this court. What is edifying for him is to come to court and not to continue to play games.”

“We want to come next week so that we can produce him. We know what to do. He cannot stand in the way of the Constitution.

“A former president of the United States was indicted, he is attending court. He did not play pranks by filing frivolous cases.

“If he believes he is innocent, he should come before the court and defend it here,” The Nation quoted Pinheiro saying.

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