Popular Nigerian Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has raised
concerns over the safety of the former minister of power and steel, Olu
Agunloye in Kuje prison.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on
Wednesday arraigned Agunloye at an Abuja High Court over fraud allegation.
The court ordered Agunloye to be remanded in prison.
Reacting to the development on Wednesday in a statement by
his spokesperson, Jahman Anikulapo, Soyinka recalled that the late Bola Ige was
murdered in his bedroom, noting that the killers were yet to be identified.
He said Agunloye, a pivotal witness in Ige’s case, could be
killed in detention.
“Dr. Olu Agunloye, we learn, was finally charged to court
today, and the presiding judge in his or her wisdom, adjourned the case and
proceeded to remand the accused.
“I wish to alert the nation, and the government that there
exists a justifiable, high-level concern for Agunloye’s safety.
“I have made it clear that Bola Ige’s murder was not
unconnected with the Mambilla scam. Olu Agunloye worked closely with me, both
within and outside routine police motions, to unmask Ige’s killers.
“It would therefore amount to unpardonable complacency to
propose that there are no forces sufficiently desperate to accord Agunloye the
same fate as Bola Ige.
“Let it be understood that if anything happens to this
pivotal witness while in custody, the inference will be heard loud, clear, and
unambiguous”, Soyinka warned.
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Wole Soyinka: I have said that you are a tribalist. Anytime it is a yoruba, you will come out calling for the unconditional release of the fellow but when it is another tribe especially igbo, you will be silent or resort to speaking confusing and nonsensical grammar. In case you do not know, Nnamdi Kanu is in detention and you have not in any fora added your voice for his release. He is guilty as charged. Soyinka, you are a tribal bigot.
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