A
massive crowd of protesters on Thursday took to the streets in Ado Ekiti to
demand that Governor Ayodele Fayose waives his immunity and answer to
corruption allegations against him.
Accusing
Fayose of looting the state treasury, the protesters, comprising members of the
All Progressives Congress in Ekiti, the Conference of Nigerian Political
Parties, youths, artisans and traders among others, demanded the prosecution of
the governor.
Specifically,
the CNPP asked the 17 members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly alleged to
have falsified their certificates to submit themselves for prosecution.
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen the governor’s accounts
with Zenith Bank and some of his associates after allegedly tracing N4.7bn from
the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) to
them and those of two sons of a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu
Obanikoro.
The
protesters carried placards with various inscriptions including “Fayose is not
above the law,” “Impunity is not immunity,” “EFCC, please probe Fayose’s account
in Access Bank,” “Fayose bring back Ekiti money, Fayose must go,” “Immunity not
a licence for criminality and impunity,” and “Fayose is destroying our image,
we are honourable people.”
Policemen,
officers of the Department of State Services and officers of the Nigerian
Security and Civil Defence Corps were deployed in the state capital to
forestall any breakdown of the law and order.
They
marched from Fajuyi park through Okeyinmi and stopped at Ijigbo area
where
they were addressed by leaders of each group.
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