PFIPC: Police illegally holding me, probe me openly, DG tells Reps
By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Detained Director General of the phantom Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi has accused the police of detaining him beyond the scope of the court order used to justify his custody, and has now demanded that the House of Representatives question him at a public sitting rather than the closed-door session the Ad-hoc Committee is reportedly planning.
He said his client would answer in public the questions the Committee was constituted to ask, while reserving, on legal advice, any question touching matters already before a court or an agency, which could be taken separately and in private.
Citing Section 89 of the Constitution, which empowers the Committee to summon any person and compel attendance, Oyedokun urged lawmakers to invoke that power and direct the police to produce his client at a public sitting.
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