{"id":183667,"date":"2020-01-11T06:33:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T05:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=183667"},"modified":"2020-01-11T06:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T05:33:36","slug":"efcc-breaks-silence-on-detention-of-shehu-sani-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=183667","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Breaks Silence On Detention Of Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/01\/1578718543_878_EFCC-Breaks-Silence-On-Detention-Of-Shehu-Sani.png\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><span class=\"block-module-image adunit hide\" data-adunit=\"story-300x250-mobile-billboard\" data-adsize=\"300,250\" data-adscreenmax=\"767\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has spoken up on the detention of ex-lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani.<\/p>\n<p>Sani is being detained for allegedly obtaining $25,000 from an auto dealer, Alhaji Sani Dauda, to bribe EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, in order to protect him from an investigation by the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-graft agency, in a statement signed by its acting spokesperson, Tony Orilade, said the senator is being treated well and he is detained in a very decent environment, adding that Sani has a case to answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvariably, claims in some quarters of the breach of his fundamental human rights are merely in the imagination of the purveyors of such claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet it be stated clearly that Senator Shehu Sani has questions to answer as regards his alleged involvement in name-dropping, and particularly that he obtained $25,000 from Alhaji Sani Dauda, the ASD Motors boss, in order to help shield him from investigations being carried out by the EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor certain people to brazenly come out to defend a suspect being probed for a serious offence like the one committed by Sani shows that they are not really conversant with his offence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate that certain people are ready to do anything to support evil for pecuniary gains.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has spoken up on the detention of ex-lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani. Sani is being detained for allegedly obtaining $25,000 from an auto dealer, Alhaji Sani Dauda, to bribe EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, in order to protect him from an investigation by the agency. The anti-graft agency, in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3,4],"tags":[30,4866,11821,10430,866,13284,62,10197,1524],"class_list":["post-183667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-arewa","tag-crime","tag-detention","tag-economic-and-financial-crime-commission","tag-efcc","tag-kaduna-state","tag-politics","tag-senator-shehu-sani","tag-shehu-sani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}