The Wife of former Minister of Aviation, Mrs
Precious Fani- Kayode was detained briefly by the Economic and Financial Crime
Commission on Monday in Ado-Ekiti.
Precious, who was in Ado-Ekiti together with her
husband as guests of Governor Ayodele Fayose, had gone to Access Bank branch in
Ado Ekiti around 3 p.m for transactions when she was detained by
officials of the bank acting on orders of the EFCC.
Vanguard gathered she got a feeling that something
strange was going on when she was not being promptly attended to, she inquired
from officials what the problem was and was told she was being detained on the
instruction of the EFCC.
Fani-Kayode in court It was then it dawn on the
nursing mother, who had come to the banking hall with her eight month old
baby that she had to call for help.
It took the intervention of Governor Fayose who
stormed the bank with some of his supporters around 7 pm to secure
her release.
Speaking with newsmen shortly after the incident,
Mrs. Fani-Kayode lamented that she was badly treated by the officials while her
baby was denied food “I’m not a politician and that account had been dormant for
about five years.
I only
activated it last month in Port Harcourt. “I decided to go to Access Bank to
make some withdrawals when I was detained on the instruction of the EFCC.
“They told me account had been frozen and they were
asked by the EFCC to arrest me on the spot.
Source: Vanguard
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