{"id":99495,"date":"2023-11-02T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/cso-gives-tinubu-efcc-7-day-ultimatum-to-release-emefiele"},"modified":"2023-11-02T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T12:31:06","slug":"cso-gives-tinubu-efcc-7-day-ultimatum-to-release-emefiele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/cso-gives-tinubu-efcc-7-day-ultimatum-to-release-emefiele","title":{"rendered":"CSO gives Tinubu, EFCC 7-day ultimatum to release Emefiele"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Nigerian Civil Society Organisation has demanded the release of the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, from the Economic and Financial Crime Commission\u2019s custody.<\/p>\n

Yusuf Maje, Convener of the Coalition of Civil Society for Defence of Human Rights, made this known at a \u2018Free Emefiele Rally\u2019 held in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST recalls that the Department of State Security freed Emefiele on October 25 after being arrested on June 9, 2023.<\/p>\n

However, immediately after his release from DSS\u2019s custody, EFCC detained him.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the development, Maje said Emefiele\u2019s travails in the hands of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s administration are a witch hunt.<\/p>\n

The group described the arrest of Emefiele by EFCC as unreasonable and a show of overzealousness.<\/p>\n

It added that Tinubu should release Emefiele or charge him to court within seven days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe submit that his further arrest amounts to double jeopardy. It is overzealousness by EFCC and a waste of government-scarce resources to subject an innocent citizen to such an ordeal just \u201cto teach him a lesson\u201d. Public members are worried that EFCC has allowed itself to be used as an instrument of oppression rather than the anti-corruption agency that it ought to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe state authoritatively that the tossing of Godwin Emefiele like a football in the field from one government agency to another in the name of investigation is unacceptable and will be frontally resisted. We reject this Gestapo way of doing things because Nigeria is no longer under a military junta where the rights of innocent citizens can be abruptly suspended. Granted that President Tinubu is doing everything possible to rid the country of corruption and reposition the same on the path of economic growth and sustainable development through his Renewed Hope Agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn a final note, we hereby demand that Godwin Emefiele should be released from EFCC detention or charged to court Within the Next seven from today. In the unlikely event that this demand is not met, then the Federal Government will have the overwhelming population of our Coalition to contend with across the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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