The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday insisted that Senator Shehu Sani has questions to answer concerning his alleged involvement in the $25,000 bribe from the owner of ASD Motors, Sani Dauda.
Sani has been in the custody of the anti-graft body for over one week.
The EFCC accused the former senator of taking money from ASD Motors owners to shield from investigation by the agency and to ‘fix promising some of cases pending against him in the high court.
He was said to have promised to pass the money was to acting chairman of the anti-graft agency, Ibrahim Magu and the Chief Justice of the Federation, Tanko Muhammad.
Sani, who represented Kaduna central senatorial district between 2015 and 2019, however, in a statement on Thursday described his arrest and detention as politically motivated.
He insisted that the allegations against him were an attempt to discredit him given his criticism of the present government.
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Reacting to Sani’s claims in a statement on Friday, EFCC acting spokesman, Tony Orilade, on his part maintained that the agency was not witch hunting the former senator.
The statement read: “The Commission wishes to state that Senator Shehu Sani is currently facing criminal investigation, and he is being detained by the EFCC in very conducive environment, based on a valid court order.
“Invariably, claims in some quarters of the breach of his fundamental human rights, is merely in the imagination of the purveyors of such claims.
“Let it be stated clearly, that Senator Shehu Sani has questions to answer as regards the alleged involvement in name-dropping, and particularly that he obtained $25,000 from Alhaji Sani Dauda, the ASD Motors boss, in order to help shield him from investigations being carried out by the EFCC.
“For certain people to brazenly come out to defend a suspect, who is being probed for a serious offence as the one committed by Sani shows that they are not really conversant with his offence.
“It is unfortunate that certain people are ready to do anything to support evil for pecuniary gains. This is quite unfortunate!”.
