THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released
the Director-General, Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, who was detained over
alleged fraud.
This was as civil society organisation, Human Rights Writers
Association of Nigeria, called on the anti-graft agency to release Okechukwu or
charge him to court.
Okechukwu was detained on
January 29, 2022 over a case of conspiracy, abuse of office and
misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N1.3bn.
He had visited the Abuja headquarters of the anti-graft agency to honour an invitation but he was subsequently detained.
However, when contacted on Saturday, EFCC spokesperson,
Wilson Uwujaren, told our correspondent that Okechukwu had been released on
bail. “He was released on Monday,” Uwujaren said, even as investigations
continue.
Earlier, HURIWA, in a statement had asked the EFCC to be
law-abiding and civil by immediately releasing Okechukwu.
The group’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, had
said this in a statement titled, ‘HURIWA Asks EFCC to release Chief Osita
Okechukwu or charge him to court immediately’.
The statement read in part, “Detaining Osita Okechukwu
arbitrarily and indefinitely violates Constitutional provision in Section 34
which gives him right to respect to her human dignity.”
The group had called on the EFCC to “release Okechukwu or
produce him in the competent court of law to prosecute him legally because
Nigeria is not a Banana Republic”.
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