A former member of FIFA’s Executive Committee, Amos Adamu, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and the Nigerian Police before an Abuja High Court, over alleged threats by the security agencies to arrest him.
Adamu is asking the court to declare that both anti-graft agencies lack the powers to investigate and prosecute him for alleged breach of FIFA’s code of ethics. His lawyer, Niyi Ayoola-Daniels, asked the court to declare that the police would be acting above their powers if they decided to investigate him for allegedly breaching FIFA’s code of ethics. Adamu also asked the court to declare that, by virtue of the laws establishing the offices of the anti-graft agencies and the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, they lacked the power to prosecute him for alleged breach of FIFA’s code of ethics.
He also asked the court to restrain the agencies and the police from infringing his right to pers onal liberty as enshrined in Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution. When the matter came up on Monday, Ayoola-Daniels told the judge that FIFA was not an agency of the federal government and therefore neither the EFCC nor the ICPC could question him on his conduct while serving as an Executive Committee member. The judge consequently adjourned the matter to 17th January, 2011.
In an affidavit attached to the originating summons, Adamu said he was rattled by the statement credited to the EFCC’s Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, which he alleged cast aspersion on his person. Adamu had been FIFA Executive member since 2006 until his suspension last month for breach of Articles 3 and 5 of FIFA’s code of ethics.
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