PFIPC scandal: Family members of criminal suspect can’t be arrested – Falana on Adeyemi’s father

Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has informed the Tinubu medication that it contravenes the constitution of the Federal Republic for an idiosyncratic to beryllium detained successful spot of a suspect.

This connection follows the lawyer’s earlier revelation that constabulary had arrested the begetter of Adeniyi Adeyemi, who claims to beryllium the Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC.

Adeyemi is the cardinal idiosyncratic successful the existent forgery probe associated with the alleged council.

During an quality connected Arise News on Tuesday evening, Falana asserted that, wrong the realm of transgression justice, an idiosyncratic should not beryllium arrested successful spot of a suspect, criticizing the actions of instrumentality enforcement agencies.

“As acold arsenic the instrumentality is concerned, household members of a transgression fishy cannot beryllium arrested successful Nigeria.

“The reported apprehension of Adeyemi’s begetter cannot beryllium justified nether the constitution, the medication of the transgression justness act, and the Nigerian constabulary unit constitution act,” helium said.

In the meantime, President Bola Tinubu has instructed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to initiate a thorough probe into the activities of the alleged PFIPC.

This directive was outlined successful a connection released on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on...