Fani-Kayode Under EFCC Investigation Over Forgery Allegation
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently probing a one-time Minister of Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode on a recent development bordering on forgery before a Federal High Court, Lagos.
The Lagos EFCC office is expecting Fani-Kayode on November 24, 2021, to answer questions on possible forgery of hospital documents to deceive the court handling the case against him on money-laundering claims with a view to hindering hearing. ICIR reports.
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The EFCC, after receiving the defendant’s recent letter, observed the trend Fani-Kayode’s letters had taken in getting adjournments and decided to look critically at the development.
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The agency observed all the letters were supposedly presented by the Kubwa General Hospital, Abuja, except one submitted from the Federal Staff Hospital, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja.
The letters were signed by different doctors, with the last one in October stating that the “patient (Fani-Kayode) has been diagnosed by one Dr. S. A. Tobechukwu” and signed by him.The agency wrote to the Kubwa General Hospital on October 12, 2021, seeking the authenticity of the letter. The hospital replied the next day, October 13, 2021, debunking Fani-Kayode’s claim and declaring there was no Doctor Tobechukwu in its employment and that, in fact, none of the names of the ‘doctors’ who purportedly issued the five letters existed in the hospital’s records. jamb results
The hospital also disclosed that no Femi Fani-Kayode had ever been diagnosed or treated as a patient at the hospital. The letterhead on the paper that Fani-Kayode used for his letters, the hospital stated, was fake and did not bear its reference number, just as the format of the patient’s number that he used did not tally with the format in the hospital’s database.
Consequent to that finding, the EFCC wrote to Fani-Kayode on November 4, 2021, inviting him to report at its Lagos office on November 10, 2021, for a chat.
Fani-Kayode replied to the EFCC letter on November 9, 2021, adding he would be unable to honour the invitation because he would be appearing before an Abuja court on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, in a criminal case, and would need to prepare for the case with his lawyers. He requested that the agency shift the date to November 17 or 18, 2021.But he did not show up on the newly appointed day. Instead, he again said he would honour the invitation on November 24, 2021, and should be allowed to appear at the Abuja office instead of the Lagos office of the EFCC. But the agency promptly rejected his request to appear at the Abuja office rather than the Lagos office as the money laundering case against him that had elicited the invitation to him was being heard at a Federal HighCourt, Lagos, and not in Abuja.
