Ex-Minister of State for Defense, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s private residents at Parkview Estate and his sons’ home close to Banana Island, Lagos were raided by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission recently. An aide of the former minister, Jonathan Eze disclosed that “Officials of the EFCC, on Tuesday, in their characteristic gestapo like manner, invaded Senator Obanikoro’s houses in Ikoyi with unnecessary intimidation and harassment of occupants, who are majorly innocent kids, teenagers, his wife and daughter in-laws, not without carting away cars, wristwatches and other valuables.”

“This is against the backdrop of the fact that the anti-graft agency has never invited him nor his sons for questioning beyond the tirades and allegations they have been propagating, using the media spaces. We are using this medium to draw attention of all Nigerians to yet another infringement on the fundamental and inalienable rights of the Obanikoro family.”

“To our chagrin, the vehicles driven away were cars and trucks bought since 2006 and thereabouts when Senator Obanikoro served as an Ambassador in Ghana among others, which obviously has no bearing with the purported investigation they are supposedly carrying out. We condemn in strong terms the brigandage and the idea of inflicting trauma on innocent dependants and violating their privacies without recourse to the rule of law. Senator Obanikoro has consulted with his lawyers and are prepared to meet them in court to stop this intrusions and persecution.”