Ekiti Election: Anti-graft Agency, EFCC Detains Pregnant Woman, Nursing Mother And Others Over Vote-buying, Gives Stringent Bail Conditions
The EFCC had captured the people thought to have taken part in vote-purchasing in Ekiti State during the equitable closed governorship political race, SaharaReporters learnt on Saturday.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been blamed for keeping a six-month-old pregnant lady, a nursing mother and five others for quite a long time without preliminary and on severe bail conditions on the charge of vote-purchasing in Ekiti State.
The EFCC had captured the people thought to have taken part in vote-purchasing in Ekiti State during the fair finished up governorship political decision, SaharaReporters learnt on Saturday.
A portion of the suspects were strutted at the Oke Ori Omi division of the Nigeria Police Force.
The suspects were accounted for to have been gotten with monies supposedly utilized for vote-purchasing. While a few different people were likewise captured at a confidential home with a book containing subtleties of citizens of a specific democratic region.
SaharaReporters accumulated that the suspects were moved to the EFCC Ilorin zonal office with bail conditions that were supposedly so severe and remarkably difficult to get together.
A letter got by SaharaReporters and addressed to the EFCC Zonal Commander dated 24th of June, endorsed by a legal counselor to the prisoners, Asmau Usman Esq. what’s more, duplicated Adeola Omotunde and Co, likewise affirmed the charges.
The letter peruses to some extent; “We are Counsel and Solicitors to Abiola Bisola Titilayo, Abiola Mary, Ibrahim Fumbi, Ibidapo Adewale, Abioia Modupe Racheal, Ibrahim Dele and Damilola Ojo thus after alluded to as ‘our Clients upon their firm and direct guidance, we make this application as follows:
“Our own Clients were captured by the men and officials of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State in their home since 18 June, 2022 and have been in confinement until date.
“The offenses for which our Clients were captured and kept are customarily bailable offenses. Our Clients are not from Kwara State and didn’t live in Ilorin and additionally Kwara State yet Ado Ekiti in Ekiti State.
“None of our Clients has a family, connection or companion in Ilorin. The circumstances expressed in the Form for Administrative bail given to our Clients dated the 18/06/2022 are rigid to such an extent that are beyond difficult for our Clients to get together.
“Our Clients are well behaved residents who are prepared to make themselves accessible at whatever point their consideration is required.
“Considering the prior, we submissively apply for the variety of the ball conditions contained in the Form dated the 18/06/2022 given to our Oients to permit them partake in their Constitutional right to freedom. If it’s not too much trouble, treat with direness,” the letter stated.A parent of one of the prisoners let SaharaReporters know that the EFCC authorities had transformed the suspects into a lucrative endeavor and were requesting N1million each to free them.
He said; “EFCC captured certain individuals in Ekiti since on Saturday, some of them were captured in their different homes and one in Ola Oluwa syntax school.
“They blamed them for vote purchasing and took them to Ilorin in Kwara State. Till now, they are still in their care without charging them to court. These individuals were captured in Ekiti and they were taken to Kwara, was the offense committed in Kwara?
“They are experiencing in the detainment, our attorneys have been there to take their bails, yet they gave them conditions that are horrendous. They requested that they bring two guarantees every, three years charge freedom, a landed property in Kwara and some more.
“Our legal advisors let them know that it is basically impossible that on earth to accomplishing such circumstances. They currently went behind to say that, “Do their families have cash?” saying we ought to proceed to bring cash.”