Ike Ekweremadu, embattled former Deputy President of the Senate has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of bring responsible for his ordeal in the United Kingdom.
Ekweremadu and his wife are being tried in a London Court over alleged plans to harvest the organs of a ‘minor’.
He told Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja that the EFCC wrote a letter to the London Court, resulting in the court denying him bail.
He made the claim in an application before the Federal High Court, arguing against a forfeiture order in respect of his properties.
Ekweremadu had applied to the court, asking it to set aside an interim order it granted the Federal Government with regard to the forfeiture of his 40 properties, claiming that the order was granted in error because the EFCC withheld information that the investigation of the 40 properties dates back to 2008.
Moreover, the ex-deputy Senate president alleged that the EFCC filed and argued the application for forfeiture of the properties while he was being detained in London, and would be unable to counter the forfeiture request, a fact it was fully in the know about and intentionally suppressed the information from the court.
Consequently, he prayed the court to vacate the forfeiture order and stay proceedings in the matter until his travails in the London court are resolved.
