Court Grants EFCC Permission To Detain Former AGF,Adoke For Fourteen Days

Following the arrest of the former Attorney General of the federation and minister of justice,Mohammed Adoke on thursday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) in Abuja, the High Court sitting in Federal Capital Territory(FCT) in Maitama, Abuja, has granted permission to the EFCC to detain the former AGF for 14 days.

Justice Othman Musa granted the request contained in an ex parte application filed and moved by the EFCC’s lawyer, Fatima Mustapha, on Friday.

Mustapha said the plan to detain the former AGF was to enable the commission to complete its investigations of allegations involving the suspect.

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Adoke who has since 2016 been charged with $1.1bn Malabu Oil scam returned into the country to end his over four years old self-exile on Thursday.

Adoke was earlier arrested in November and has since been detained by the INTERPOL in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

On his arrival on Thursday at Nnamdi international Airport from Dubai where he had been in custody, the former AGF was arrested by the EFCC for corruption related cases.

Following an agreement between him, INTERPOL, and Dubai authorities, he returned to Nigeria on Thursday.

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