Embattled former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is behind his travails at the London Court where he is in detention.
Ekweremadu has been in the custody of UK authorities over an alleged organ harvest.
The Senator told the Federal High Court Abuja, on Thursday, that the EFCC wrote a letter to the London court, which made the court refuse him bail.
Ekweremadu states this in an application he filed before the court seeking an order to set aside interim order granted in favour of the Federal Government for the forfeiture of his 40 properties in the country and outside the country.
In the application brought by his counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo SAN, Ekweremadu said that the forfeiture order was granted by the Federal Government in error because the EFCC suppressed information and facts in respect of the properties.
Specifically, the detained Senator alleged that the EFCC fraudulently obtained the forfeiture order for the government by concealing information that the investigation on the 40 properties started as far back as 2008.
Among others, he alleged that the EFCC was fully aware that he was in detention in London when the application for forfeiture of the properties was filed and argued.
He said that the anti-graft agency deliberately refused to disclose to the court that he was in London detention and would not be able to counter the forfeiture request.
The Senator, therefore, prayed the court to set aside the forfeiture order and stay proceedings in the matter until he resolves his ordeal before the London Court.
However, counsel to the EFCC, Mr Silvanus Tahir SAN denied that his client was behind Ekweremadu’s ordeal.
Tahir, however, admitted that EFCC wrote the London court based on a special request adding that it was a normal routine for anti-graft agencies to exchange information that would be of help to one another.
Tahir did not oppose the request for a stay of proceedings till Ekweremadu fully resolve his matter before the London court but however, vehemently opposed the request for setting aside the forfeiture order.
Justice Inyang Ekwo after taking arguments from parties fixed January 25 next year for ruling in the matter.
Recall that the court had on November 4, ordered the interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties linked to Ekweremadu in some parts of the country and outside the country.
Justice Ekwo made the order following an ex -parte motion filed and moved by Ibrahim Buba, lawyer to the EFCC.
