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We’re not behind your travails, EFCC replies Ekweremadu

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has replied the embattled former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on the claim that the Commission is behind his bail refusal by the United Kingdom authorities. Ekweremadu had earlier told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja that EFCC was responsible for his travails at the London Court where he had been in detention over alleged organ harvest. The senator’s allegations were contained in an application he filed before the federal high court seeking an order of the court to set aside interim order granted in favour of the Federal Government for the forfeiture of his 40 properties in and outside the country. However, in its counter affidavit, the EFCC argued that the allegations made against it by Ekweremadu’s son showed he was not conversant with the proceedings in the criminal prosecution against his parents in the London court, which was why he thought the EFCC “has a hand in the predicament and travails of hi...