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Adoke raises alarm, says ‘Presidency, EFCC hatching plot to abduct me’

Freedom Reporter by Freedom Reporter
August 21, 2017
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Adoke

Adoke

 I have become aware of plans being made by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), acting in concert with the Presidency, to illegally abduct me and forcibly drag me to Nigeria for purposes of detaining and humiliating me for having the audacity to challenge in court, my continuous persecution, intimidation and harassment by the EFCC. 
It will be recalled that following relentless media attack on my person by the EFCC, acting in concert with some powerful families with known ties to the government which culminated in the filing of phantom money laundering and corruption charges against me, I made spirited efforts to engage with relevant officials of government, including the EFCC, the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and
the Presidency to furnish them with all the information in respect of the OPL 245 Settlement Agreement between the
Federal Government of Nigeria and Malabu Oil & Gas Limited which was brokered by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR. 
I also furnished copies of
relevant Agreements and Presidential approvals to implement the
Settlement Agreement; evidence that the signature bonus of US$210 million due to government was duly paid and that all the officials that were involved in the implementation of the Settlement
Agreement acted in furtherance of the requisite Presidential approval to actualize Government’s desire to end a long standing dispute over the ownership and operation of Block 245 that had prevented the commercial exploitation of the block for the benefit of the country. 
Despite my best endeavour to explain the transaction, it became obvious that those who felt aggrieved by my
refusal to use my office to further their interests in Malabu Oil & Gas Limited, (the beneficiary of the OPL 245 Settlement Agreement), were intent on impugning the transaction in order to strengthen the hands of their collaborators in government to repudiate settlement.
Consequently, concerted efforts were made in the media to taint the otherwise transparent implementation of the Settlement Agreement with corruption. 
I was singled out for prosecution in the absence of any proof of personal interest/gain or wrongdoing on my part.
It was against this background that I approached the Federal High Court for interpretation of the provisions of sections 5(1); 147, 148, and 150 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended in order to determine whether as a Minister in the Government of the Federation, I could incur criminal liability for carrying out the lawful directives of the President and Commander-in-Chief, particularly where it has not been shown that I acted in excess of such authority or directive.
 I was made to understand this move did not go down well with certain persons in the Presidency and the EFCC, hence the renewed harassment and intimidation that followed in form of searches of my residences in Kano and Okene and that of my brother. 
While these searches for ‘hidden dollars’ have not yielded any fruit
because I do not have any money stacked up anywhere, a new angle
has emerged as a plan has been hatched to abduct me from any jurisdiction where I may be with the help of security agents of some collaborating countries known for extra-ordinary renditions for the sole purpose of meting out the “Dasuki Treatment” to me. It is reasoned that if I were held out as a corrupt person with illegally obtained wealth, I would lose sympathy from Nigerians and indeed the
international community thereby making it possible for them to tolerate my illegal detention/incarceration. I have
petitioned the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers about my plight and the deliberate efforts being made by the EFCC and the government to deny me my livelihood, family life, as well as my legitimate right to fundamental freedoms. 
I, therefore, wish to use this medium to once more sensitise Nigerians and the international community about the flagrant abuse of my rights being perpetrated by Nigerian authorities under the guise of fighting corruption and the plan to illegally abduct me against all known international
laws, rules and norms in order to forcibly take me to Nigeria akin to
the botched  ‘Umaru Dikko Saga’ in the
UK in 1984 for the sole purpose of
humiliating and illegally detaining me
indefinitely for daring to
challenge the actions /illegalities of the EFCC before Nigerian Courts and relevant UN Human Rights mechanisms.  
MOHAMMED BELLO ADOKE, SAN, CFR.

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