Dimeji Bankole, outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Friday resisted efforts made for his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Hafiz Ringim, Inspector-General of Police’s intervention was said to averted what would have resulted in a bloodbath between the security personnel attached to Bankole who resisted the arrest of their boss and the ones dispatched by the EFCC to effect the arrest.
The EFCC source said the commission, which has been on the trail of the embattled speaker since the news of the alleged sleaze broke out about two weeks ago, had stationed its men at his private and official residences to monitor his activities.
The source stressed that when the commission got wind of Bankole’s alleged plan to run out of the country immediately after the expiration of his tenure as the speaker, said that the commission had since placed him on its watch-list.
According to the source, the EFCC operatives, on the order of Farida Waziri, the commission’s chairman swooped down on his private residence in Asokoro as early as 8: am Friday morning, with a view to arresting him.
The embattled speaker has before now consistently shunned several invitations extended to him by the commission over his involvement in the N10bn loan scandal that has shattered the peace of the lower House.
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