The Attorney-General of Ekiti State, Mr Kolapo Kolade has described as unconstitutional the arrest of two Commissioners of the state by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Kolade made the observation while addressing newsmen on Monday in Abuja.
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo and the Accountant General of the State, Yemisi Owolabi were on Thursday arrested by the operatives of the EFCC over alleged misapplication of resources accrued to the state government.
Kolade said that the arrest of the two commissioners was unconstitutional and “a display of executive lawlessness”.
The arrest according to him is also against a valid subsisting order issued in 2016 by a Federal High Court in a suit FHC/AD/CS/32/2016 in which the EFCC was a defendant.
He said that the court had refrained the anti-graft agency from “arresting, detaining or investigating…
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