Just In : EFCC Warns of Potential Military Involvement in Yahaya Bello’s Arrest.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has threatened to enlist the military in carrying out the order issued on Wednesday, April 17, for the arrest of Yahaya Bello, the immediate former governor of Kogi state.

The EFCC’s lawyer, Kemi Pinheiro (SAN), issued the warning on Thursday, April 18, before a Federal High Court in Abuja, accusing Bello’s replacement, Usman Ododo, of impeding his client’s efforts to carry out the order on Wednesday.

Pinheiro said: “What happened yesterday was that a person with immunity (Ododo) came to whisk him (Bello) away to abort his arrest.

“We know that he is being kept in his successor’s house. Immunity is not attached to a home but to a person.

“We can invite the military to invade the building where he is being kept to execute the order of this court. What is edifying for him is to come to court and not to continue to play games.

“We want to come next week so that we can produce him. We know what to do. He cannot stand in the way of the Constitution.

“A former president of the United States was indicted, he is attending court. He did not play pranks by filing frivolous cases.

“If he believes he is innocent, he should come before the court and defend it here.”

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